<snip suggestions to replace drive as I am doing that> Greg Freemyer wrote: > The question was how to keep the raid-5 as fault tolerant as possible > during the drive swapout. I think I'm resigned that that is an on-going feature request :) Actually I'm more worried that a clearly failing drive is not causing any problems for a sync_action = repair. This drive is almost dead and md appears to think it is fine. How come? 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