Le Saturday 30 October 2010 04:52:35, Marco Peereboom a icrit : > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:41:52PM +0200, Jean-Francois wrote: > > > # bioctl -R sd0a sd2 > > > > If I understand well the above command kicks off a rebuild on a > > replacement device. Few questions from my side ... > > > > Is it possible to rebuild with another device for example sd0b or sd1a > > instead of sd0a ? (seems no if I understood properly) > > Assuming I got the question right, yes. You can rebuild on any > appropriately sized chunk. > > > Is the same process as for initialization required for the rebuild ? e.g. > > # fdisk -iy sd0 > > # printf "a\n\n\n\nRAID\nw\nq\n\n" | disklabel -E sd0 > > > > Regards
Ok, to be more clear, say for example we set a softraid called sd2 with chuncks sd0a and sd1a in raid 1. sd0a becomes faulty/offline, I would like to use an appropriate chunk to relpace it, but say it is not designed sd0a but sd3a, what can we then do ? Could we rebuild on sd3a ? Thanks & regards
