On 25 May 2017, NeilBrown spake thusly:
On Wed, May 24 2017, Nix wrote:
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(I'm not sure what to do if it *works* -- how do I test any later
changes? I might reshape back to RAID-5 + spare again just so I can test
later stuff, but that would take ages: the array is over 14TiB...)
If it works (which it did), then we'll have enough understanding that it
should be easy to simulate the problem accurately in a VM.
I don't think there is any need for you to experiment further on your
data.
If you need me to, I can -- this machine isn't commissioned yet (though
the plan *is* to do so next weekend, I can put it off: I've put it off
before...)
Plus I have plenty of backups. :)
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