> Hello, personally I would vote for an option to rotate spares into and > array > like Peter suggests, keeping a drive idle doesn't guarrantee that it's > actually operational. Only problem with this, is if you do it frequently, it'll degrade performance. Btw, is there a way to replace a drive without failing one? In RAID-5, a common issue is to have a failed drive and then find bad sectors on another. In this setting (and possibly others), it'd be good to have md replace the drive while still active (like what can be done in ZFS). -- Vennlige hilsener / Best regards roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (+47) 98013356 roy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://blogg.karlsbakk.net/ GPG Public key: http://karlsbakk.net/roysigurdkarlsbakk.pubkey.txt -- I all pedagogikk er det essensielt at pensum presenteres intelligibelt. Det er et elementært imperativ for alle pedagoger å unngå eksessiv anvendelse av idiomer med xenotyp etymologi. I de fleste tilfeller eksisterer adekvate og relevante synonymer på norsk. -- 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
