Another take on replacing failed raid drives
I stumbled on this description of replacing a drive in a raid array. I share it because different takes on a subject are usesful, and because he had multiple arrays using partitions of the failed drive, rather than a partitioned array.
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=1368
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Bill Davidsen <[email protected]> "We can't solve today's problems by using the same thinking we used in creating them." - Einstein
Quoted 4 lines · Bill Davidsen
I stumbled on this description of replacing a drive in a raid array. I share it because different takes on a subject are usesful, and because he had multiple arrays using partitions of the failed drive, rather than a partitioned array.
I do that too (multiple arrays using partitions). My reason for that is to make future upgrades less painful as it is possible to just copy and drop one array at a time.
Quoted 6 lines · John Hendrikx
Quoted 4 lines · Bill Davidsen
I stumbled on this description of replacing a drive in a raid array. I share it because different takes on a subject are usesful, and because he had multiple arrays using partitions of the failed drive, rather than a partitioned array.
I do that too (multiple arrays using partitions). My reason for that is to make future upgrades less painful as it is possible to just copy and drop one array at a time.
I do that too, but my reason is that the arrays are different types. For example, first partitions make RAID-1 for /boot, second partitions RAID-1 or RAID-10 swap, third partitions RAID-5 or RAID-6 filesystem (or several over LVM).
Cheers,
John.