Good evening Mathias, On 07/31/2011 02:31 PM, Mathias Burén wrote: [trim] > No I don't have a backup ;), perhaps it's time to get one. This isn't > super important data, more like "nice to have". > > I don't have any hotplug bays or anything like that (you'll see in a > while after I put up the pictures) so I shut down the system to take > the faulty HDD out. > > Is it wise to run a check on the array while it's degraded by 1 HDD? It shouldn't hurt your array, other than a bit of exercise. If another drive is marginal, it could conceivably "push it over the edge". Any positive value it has will occur anyways during the resync with the replacement drive for sdh. I wouldn't bother running the scrub until the resync is finished. Phil -- 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
