On 1 August 2011 00:56, Mathias Burén <mathias.buren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 1 August 2011 00:42, Phil Turmel <philip@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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 >> > > > Thanks, I'll wait to scrub until I get the new HDD (hopefully within 2 > weeks). Pics of the beast here: http://stuff3.imgur.com/htpcnas > > /Mathias > New HDD received from Samsung via RMA, all went fine adding it, now the array is in recovery: root@ion ~ $ mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --add /dev/sdh1 mdadm: added /dev/sdh1 root@ion ~ $ cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md0 : active raid6 sdh1[8] sdf1[5] sde1[7] sdg1[0] sdd1[4] sdb1[1] sdc1[3] 9751756800 blocks super 1.2 level 6, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [7/6] [UUUUU_U] [>....................] recovery = 0.0% (87852/1950351360) finish=1109.9min speed=29284K/sec unused devices: <none> Thanks for all the help. /Mathias -- 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
