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From: John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Maximizing failed disk replacement on a RAID5 array
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 09:52:55 +0100
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On 06/06/2011 19:06, Durval Menezes wrote:
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> It would be great to have a
> "duplicate-this-bad-old-disk-into-this-shiny-new-disk"  functionality,
> as it would enable  an almost-no-downtime disk replacement with
> minimum  risk, but it seems we can't have everything... :-0 Maybe it's
> something for the wishlist?

It's already on the wishlist, described as a hot replace.

Cheers,

John.