Re: Replacing a RAID Drive - paranoia
hi ya Mike
true...
i wait for resync to finish... just out of paranoia...
and similarly before putting it live and online...
i wanna reboot one more time fo rparanoia..
c ya
alvin
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On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 05:14:21PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
> >
> > hi ya robert
> >
> >
> > after you install the new disks... let it do its magic to resync
> > itself.... ( dont write any new info to it for a while )
> >
> > watch the counter/timer to see when its done resyncing back to its
> > happy self...
> >
>
> No need to wait...
>
> > cat /proc/mdstat
> > - should tell you how long it has before finished sync'ing
> >
> > - if your master died... you should wait...
> >
> > - if your slave(mirror) died... you should be able to continue
> > but risky ... donno what happens when it has too much stuff to
> > sync up
> >
> > since oyu have to install the new hard disk,,,
> > - i assume yu already shut down.... and installed the new disk and
> > formated it etc... and power up
> >
> > - BEFORE installing the replacement disk... i'd make sure it still
> > boots in degraded mode before you install the new disk
> > - make sure you can boot...first...
> > - make a boot floppy if you have to...and test the boot floppy
> >
> > - once the new disk is installed, just keep going... no need to shutdown
> > again.. until AFTER it finished resyncing...
> >
>
> No need to shutdown at all, unless there are other reasons...
>
>
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