Roger Searle wrote, On 29/10/09 10:47:
From my reading of man mdadm, it suggests doing a fail and remove of
the faulty drive, possibly at the same time as adding a new device,
like:
mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/sda1 --fail /dev/sdb1 --remove /dev/sdb1
Is this a good process to follow or is it redundant/unnecessary?
Craig Falconer wrote:
Sounds silly actually - remove the only good drive as you add the
blank one?
Perhaps I have confused things by quoting that line direct from the man
page rather than changing to reflect my actual devices - it is just
saying that in one line you can add a new device, the example being sda1
and removing a failed one that is sdb1. I'd be adding sdd. does that
sound better? The question really being more about the need to fail and
remove the bad drive?
