Re: Pulling disk out of the RAID 5 Array?

[Theo Van Dinter <felicity@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 11:07:53AM -0600, Austin Gonyou wrote:
> I'll second that. It's easy to pull a drive and hope everything is OK,
> but the risk is very high. If you were to do this though, ensure that
> you're array is less than 50% full. Even on a busy system, the less full
> you are, the less there is to rebuild and the better off you'll be. 

Since RAID just knows about a bunch of bits, it doesn't matter how full it
is, the disk has to be completely rebuilt.  However, the less space in the
array that you use, the less likely that the array will get I/O, and the more
time the array has to devote to rebuilding the disk.

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