On 08/05/2009 23:15, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
Hi, consider the following situation: You have a software raid that runs fine but one disk is suspect (e.g. SMART says failure imminent or something). How do you replace that disk? Currently you have do fail/remove the disk from the raid, add a fresh disk and resync. That leaves a large window in which redundancy is compromised. With current disk sizes that can be days. It would be nice if one could tell the kernel to replace a disk in a raid set with a spare without the need to degrade the raid. Thoughts?
I remember this being discussed a few months ago, and I think it's fairly high up Neil Brown's to do/roadmap for the future.
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