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Comment by xyzzyz

7 years ago

Huh? Hot swapping disks is extremely common.

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dboreham  7 years ago

Depends on your definition of 'hot' (and also on your definition of 'disk'). If you mean 'FS volume under active write load' then no it isn't extremely common.

a-dub  7 years ago

the raid device remains stable and fsyncs don't fail in that case.

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