Re: Safely swapping a disk in a RAID456

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On Fri, Sep 30, 18:06, Rudy Zijlstra wrote:
> Replacing without degrade:
> - stop the raid
> - do a dd from old disk to new disk
> - replace the disk
> - re-start the raid

This works but the array needs to be stopped during the dd, which may take a
long time. Creating a raid1 first allows you to restart the raid456 immediately
after the raid1 has been started, no need to wait for the initialization to
complete.

Andre
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