From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nagilum Subject: Re: 4-disk raid5 with 2 disks going bad: best way to proceed? Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 22:13:34 +0200 Message-ID: <20110407221334.16604ufejmh3q9s0@cakebox.homeunix.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: rob pfile Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Hmm, I think you could: - add a disk, - reshape your raid5 to raid6 while using the layout where the raid5 disks aren't really changed - let it finish syncing - reshape the raid6 to raid5 taking one of the bad disks out I'm sure Neil will let us know if this is nonsense. ;) Alex. ----- Message from rpfile@gmail.com --------- Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 18:45:15 -0700 From: rob pfile Subject: 4-disk raid5 with 2 disks going bad: best way to proceed? To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org > is there a way to construct a clean copy of one of the disks even if > there are raid-correctable read errors? ----- End message from rpfile@gmail.com ----- ======================================================================== # _ __ _ __ http://www.nagilum.org/ \n icq://69646724 # # / |/ /__ ____ _(_) /_ ____ _ nagilum@nagilum.org \n +491776461165 # # / / _ `/ _ `/ / / // / ' \ Amiga (68k/PPC): AOS/NetBSD/Linux # # /_/|_/\_,_/\_, /_/_/\_,_/_/_/_/ Mac (PPC): MacOS-X / NetBSD /Linux # # /___/ x86: FreeBSD/Linux/Solaris/Win2k ARM9: EPOC EV6 # ======================================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------- cakebox.homeunix.net - all the machine one needs..