Re: RAIDframe: what if a disc fails during copyback

[Edgar Fuß <ef%math.uni-bonn.de@localhost>]

> it locks out all other non-copyback IO in order to finish the job!
Oops!

> Locking out all other IO is very poor... but if it's a small enough RAID set
> you might be able to get away with the downtime for the copyback...
Certainly not.

> You shouldn't need to reboot for this... the 'failing spared disk' and
> 'reconstruct to previous second disk' should work fine without reboot.
I still don't get this. What I have is:

Components:
           /dev/sd5a: spared
           /dev/sd6a: optimal
Spares:
           /dev/sd7a: used_spare

So what am I supposed to do from here?