> Add spare to array > echo want_replacement > /sys/block/md0/md/dev-sdm/state > Wait 6 hours > Remove failed drive > Job done. > > Last time I tried this (lots of kernel versions ago) I had all sorts > of > issues with removing the failed drive and other sticky stuff that > required rebooting to clean up. This "just worked". This is great. Any idea when that came in? Btw, with as many as 10 drives in a RAID-6, I'd keep at least one spare permanently there… 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