On 06/03/2013, at 2:34 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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… > Im pretty sure I last tested it about 3.2 or 3.3. I do keep a permanent spare drive, but with 3 arrays I manually allocate it in the rare event it is required. This drive had not failed out of the array, so the spare sat idle until I proactively replaced the dodgy drive.-- 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
