Solved MDADM Hot-Swap
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Does MDADM support hot swapping of drives?
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Yes, MD RAID is hot swapable.
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Does anything specific need to be done to perform the swap, or just plug and let it resilver?
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@DustinB3403 said:
Does anything specific need to be done to perform the swap, or just plug and let it resilver?
It's hot swap, not blind swap, so yes. It has to be fully removed in the OS, powered down. Then removed. Added in and spun up.
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So does this process make sense?
https://www.howtoforge.com/replacing_hard_disks_in_a_raid1_array
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@DustinB3403 said:
So does this process make sense?
https://www.howtoforge.com/replacing_hard_disks_in_a_raid1_array
If you want to do a cold swap, yes.
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Your hardware must support hot swap too, you can't just yank hard drives out of a box just because the software is okay with that.
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