On Wed, 8 Jul 2015, jtroan@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I'm also thinking about adding a fourth drive and try to config it as a hot-spare, giving me some extra margin for failure.
I would recommend you turn your raid5 into raid6 instead of having a raid5+spare. This can be done with a fairly simple command, without downtime.
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