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Re: mdadm

08 February 2011, 01:36 UTC

First off, thank you so much for the MD software. It is fantastic stuff and has saved my bacon many a time.

I have a minor question. On one of my MD RAIDs (level 6) I had a drive failure and replaced the failed 1TB drive with a 2TB drive until I could get a new 1TB drive. When I got the new drive I did a --fail, --remove on the 2TB drive and --add on the new 1TB drive. Of course that means that for the duration of the rebuild, the system was running at reduced parity. Is there any way to tell the MD system that I want to replace a drive so it should copy the contents of one to the other and mirror writes to both, then once complete, fail out the original drive?

Thanks, -ben




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