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mdadm --fail and superblock
mdadm --fail and superblock
Hi, I was wondering what happens to the superblock of a disk manually failed and removed with mdadm. Does that prevent the disk to be used again as a valid member? I mean: if I move the failed HDD to another system, would I be theoretically able to rebuild an array starting from it? Like a bizarre and dangerous way of cloning the array...
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Re: mdadm --fail and superblock
Nothing. Only the superblocks of the remaining members are updated.ctrl wrote: what happens to the superblock of a disk manually failed and removed with mdadm.
Yes, if it is RAID 1.ctrl wrote:if I move the failed HDD to another system, would I be theoretically able to rebuild an array starting from it?