Re: proactive raid5 disk replacement success (using bitmap + raid1)

2006-06-22 Thread Ming Zhang
Hi Dean Thanks a lot for sharing this. I am not quite understand about these 2 commands. Why we want to add a pre-failing disk back to md4? mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sde1 mdadm /dev/md4 -a /dev/sde1 Ming On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 18:40 -0700, dean gaudet wrote: i had a disk in a raid5 which

Re: proactive raid5 disk replacement success (using bitmap + raid1)

2006-06-22 Thread dean gaudet
well that part is optional... i wasn't replacing the disk right away anyhow -- it had just exhibited its first surface error during SMART and i thought i'd try moving the data elsewhere just for the experience of it. -dean On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Ming Zhang wrote: Hi Dean Thanks a lot for

Re: proactive raid5 disk replacement success (using bitmap + raid1)

2006-06-22 Thread Ming Zhang
ic. thx for clarifying. ming On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 17:09 -0700, dean gaudet wrote: well that part is optional... i wasn't replacing the disk right away anyhow -- it had just exhibited its first surface error during SMART and i thought i'd try moving the data elsewhere just for the

proactive raid5 disk replacement success (using bitmap + raid1)

2006-04-23 Thread dean gaudet
i had a disk in a raid5 which i wanted to clone onto the hot spare... without going offline and without long periods without redundancy. a few folks have discussed using bitmaps and temporary (superblockless) raid1 mappings to do this... i'm not sure anyone has tried / reported success