Max Waterman wrote: > Of course, you could always *not* yank them; instead just fail them > (after unmounting/syncing/whatever) and leave the actual disk in the > machine. Also worth mentioning is that you can have a 3-way RAID1. So adding a disk, allowing it to sync and then removing it again means you are never left with just a single point of failure. You can of course send the 'backup' disk(s) to sleep too. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html