Re: Safely swapping a disk in a RAID456

On 30/09/11 18:28, Andre Noll wrote:

On Fri, Sep 30, 17:42, martin f krafft wrote:

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Does anyone have any ideas?

Create a 2-disk Raid1 (with external metadata) containing the disk
you'd like to replace and the replacement disk.

And yes, it would be great if md provided an easier way to do this.

That would be "hot replace", which is quite high up on the md/mdadm "things to do" list.

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