On 08/14/2014 11:27 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
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
Thanks. If I may, I like to ask one related question. I have a disk that
is already kicked out. Will adding a bitmap to degraded array help in
-re_add the device? I doubt it, but I rather ask before trying as I am
paranoid after the disk failure.
Ramesh
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