how to get 'peer disk' in raid configuration?
Few days ago met intersting question:
Let assume we have RAID10 on 4 disks. We want to remove two disks without breaking array.
How we can know which drive is safe to eject? For 1st drive it obvious: any of. Second is more complicated: we need eject mirror part of 'second pair'.
How we can know exact topology of raid? (--detail does not provide enough information, IMHO).
Quoted 8 lines · On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 03:51:05 +0400 George Shuklin <[email protected]>…
Few days ago met intersting question:
Let assume we have RAID10 on 4 disks. We want to remove two disks without breaking array.
How we can know which drive is safe to eject? For 1st drive it obvious:
any of. Second is more complicated: we need eject mirror part of 'second pair'.
Rules is simple. Don't remove adjacent devices (where the last is considered to be adjacent to the first).
There are some pairs of adjacent devices that it is safe to remove, but it is always safe to remove a device that is not adjacent to a removed devices.
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How we can know exact topology of raid? (--detail does not provide enough information, IMHO).
What - exactly - would you like to see in --detail.
Your answer must take into account the possibility of an odd number of devices, of more than 2 copies of each block, and of near, far, and offset modes.
(Patches preferred, but English-language descriptions are acceptable :-)
NeilBrown
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Quoted 17 lines · NeilBrown
Quoted 8 lines · On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 03:51:05 +0400 George Shuklin<[email protected]>…
Few days ago met intersting question:
Let assume we have RAID10 on 4 disks. We want to remove two disks without breaking array.
How we can know which drive is safe to eject? For 1st drive it obvious:
any of. Second is more complicated: we need eject mirror part of 'second pair'.Rules is simple. Don't remove adjacent devices (where the last is considered to be adjacent to the first).
There are some pairs of adjacent devices that it is safe to remove, but it is always safe to remove a device that is not adjacent to a removed devices.
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How we can know exact topology of raid? (--detail does not provide enough information, IMHO).
What - exactly - would you like to see in --detail.
Your answer must take into account the possibility of an odd number of devices, of more than 2 copies of each block, and of near, far, and offset modes.(Patches preferred, but English-language descriptions are acceptable :-)
Well... Actually I've prefer to have something like --fail-safe, which will reject 'fail' operation for disk in array if this will make array unusable. I'm not sure if this can be adequately represented in --detail (f.e. RAID10 on 5 disks), but some kind of 'safe operations' will be really nice.
N.B. Few month ago HP launch it new servers, with special indicator on enclosure for 'critical drives' which shall not be ejected (or array will fail). I think have some way to get that information for linux-raid will be really nice...