Hotplug
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Revision as of 07:08, 15 April 2010
HW issues of the disk hotplugging are described in the Hotswap chapter of theHardware issues page.
The Linux RAID supports hotplug operations fully from Hot-unplug branch of the mdadm version 3.1.2.
mdadm versions < 3.1.2
Let's have md0 RAID1 composed of /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1
If we hot-unplugged the disk /dev/sda, the /proc/mdstat would show:
# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1]
md0 : active raid1 sda1[2](F) sdb1[1]
3903680 blocks [2/1] [_U]
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We see that sda1 has role [2]. Since RAID1 needs only 2 components - [0] and [1], the [2] means "Spare disk". And it is (F)ailed.
What we can do is remove the failed disk:
# mdadm /dev/md3 --fail detached --remove detached mdadm: hot removed 8:1
mdadm versions > 3.1.2
(to be finished)
