On 06/03/13 10:21, Keith Keller wrote:
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?
No, have not got that advanced yet. I just keep on top of the monitoring
e-mails and manage things manually. Thanks for the reminder though. I do
need to have a look at that a bit closer when I get some more time.
Would not have helped in this application though.
Regards,
Brad
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