On Thu, 14 Aug 2014, Ram Ramesh wrote:
I thought write-intent bitmap was not a good idea. May be I did not research enough. This brings me to the next (probably more important) question. How do I replace a old drive that has not died without having to rebuild? If I did a dd image xfer will it accept the replacement?
If you have a fairly recent kernel and mdadm, there is mdadm --replace. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/74924/how-to-safely-replace-a-not-yet-failed-disk-in-a-linux-raid5-array -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@xxxxxxxxx -- 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
