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How to safely replace a not-yet-failed disk in a Linux RAID5 array?

I have a software RAID5 array (Linux md) on 4 disks. I would like to replace one of the disks with a new one, without putting the array in a degraded state, and if possible, online. How would that ...
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Disable RAID auto detect at runtime

In Linux, I'm partitioning two disks for RAID1 with fdisk. The first disk partitioning succedes, but the second fail because the raid starts automatically and occupy also the second disk (why? it ...
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RAID Lag-Behind Burst Write

I would like to setup RAID1 so that a ramdisk in the RAID configuration has occasional synchronisation with a physical disk (that is very battery intensive to run, so I hope to let it spinout). Is ...
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Selective stripping on RAID-0 with mdadm

With mdadm one can create a raid with a fixed chunk. I am trying to have a line by line stripping of a file. In fact, I'd like my files to have there lines repartitioned across the RAID. I am ...
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mdadm raid0 with disks of different size?

Currently I'm using LVM just to merge a few disks of different size. I want to know if it is possible to use mdadm with stripes instead of LVM? Will it give me additional performance? Will it use ...
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How do I attach my LVM RAID's to a new Ubuntu install?

I have an Ubuntu 9 Desktop system that I mainly use as a media server. I have a 2TB RAID5 and a 500GB RAID1, both using LVM. The OS drive is a 4GB CompactFlash card which has finally run out of space. ...
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Make Software raid of kernel use dedicated core of cpu

I am sure this is more of a question related to approach than a tech-how-to. I have 2 processors, each with 2 cores on my machine. I have Software RAID (md0) configured using Linux kernel. Is it ...
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mdadm raid1 and what chunksize (or blocksize) on 4k drives?

I want to use two 3 TB drives in a mdadm raid1 setup (using Debian Sequeeze). The drives use 4k hardware sectors instead of the traditional 512 byte ones. I am a bit confused because on the one hand ...
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How to recover a crashed Linux md RAID5 array?

Some time ago I had a RAID5 system at home. One of the 4 disks failed but after removing and putting it back it seemed to be OK so I started a resync. When it finished I realized, to my horror, that 3 ...
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mdadm Raid5 gives spares missing events

I succesfully builded up a raid5 array on debian testing (Wheezy). As the manpages and further tell, the array would be created as an out of sync array with just a new spare injected to be repaired. ...
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Will the system make sure that mdadm is sync-ed before completing a reboot?

This is a follow up to my crazy mdadm problem. I'm trying to figure out what might have caused sda to get out of sync in the first place. The only thing I can think of is that I had just run a bunch ...
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Drive was unable to assemble into the array

I ran mdadm -A /dev/md0 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 Only /dev/sdb1 was loaded into the array though. I have a few more arrays on the same two drives too. Each time the partition on sda failed. dmesg told ...
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In place upgrade of a software raid 5 array

I run a software raid array for my backups, but my data has outgrown capacity. considering I have a full 2.4TB array with 5*600GB drives and also have 5*2TB drives I would like to swap in. What ...
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RAID 1 in linux

I'd like to setup RAID 1 with two drives in linux. I don't have a hardware RAID controller and don't want to buy one, so what is the best software RAID option for linux? Note: If it makes a ...