Linux adding and sharing a hot spare device in software RAID

December 24, 2008 | By Fabio Milano In CentOS, Fedora, Linux, RAID, Tutorial | Comments(0)

Scenario / Question: How do I add a hot spare to my existing RAID Arrays and also have it shared among the RAID Arrays Solution / Answer: Use mdadm to hot add the new drive partition to the RAID Array Configure mdadm.conf to include “spare-group” setting Configure mdadm to run in [continue...]