On 04/04/18 23:36, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: >> >> I would, however, make sure I've blown away as much of any partition >> remnants > > Any reason why --re-add'ing sdg (as is, not blowing away anything) is > unsafe? > There is a bitmap so this should be the quickest way to get back some > redundancy. > Then diagnose sdb and deal with it. Because sdg is AHEAD of the other drives? As I understand it, the bitmap tells you what writes are missing from the current drive so you can recreate them from the others. However if the current drive is *ahead* then you need to know what writes to *throw* *away*, and I don't think the bitmap tells you that. I could be wrong, though ... Cheers, Wol -- 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
