On 2013-03-05, Brad Campbell <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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.-- Are you using the spare-group attribute of arrays in mdadm.conf? If so, how well has it worked in your scenario? --keith -- kkeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
