Robin Hill wrote: > Ideally you should unmount the array before failing & removing the > drive. If this is not possible then pick a time when the IO is likely > to be low - there's always going be a risk of corruption (especially > with something like a database), but modern journalling filesystems > usually cope with this okay. If you can't unmount then essentially you want to snapshot the filesystem/databases - some provide facilities for this. xfs_freeze springs to mind. At the very least you could do sync;mdadm --fail but that's playing with fire... David -- "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..." -- 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
