On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 18:31 +0200, Shai wrote: > On 4/19/06, Dexter Filmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Let's say a disk in an array starts yielding smart errors but is still > > functional. > > So instead of waiting for it to fail completely and start a sync and stress > > the other disks, could I clone that disk to a fresh one, put the array > > offline and replace the disk? > > Hi, > > Why can't you just mark that drive as failed, remove it and hotadd a > new drive to replace the failed drive?
because background rebuild is slower than disk to disk copy, since his disk is still fully functional. > > Shai > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
