Hi Claude, I can't speak to any data loss as I don't know the answer. One observation however. With 7 disks in a RAID-5 and a hotspare(?), you really should be looking into RAID-6. It'll use that spare drive but be a lot safer. Hot Spares only get pulled into an array on drive failure, triggering a full rebuild. That leaves your entire array vulnerable until the rebuild finishes. With RAID-6, that spare is already part of the array so a single disk failure anywhere won't leave your array vulnerable while you replace the broken disk. Just my $0.02. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie "This started out as a hobby and spun horribly out of control." -Unknown -- 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
