Chris Mason wrote:
You want to have spare capacity, enough for one or two (or fifteen)
drives' worth of data. When a drive goes bad, you rebuild into the
spare capacity you have.
You want spare capacity that does not degrade your raid levels if you
move the data onto it. In some configs, this will be a hot spare, in
others it'll just be free space.
What kind of configuration would prefer a spare disk to spare capacity?
RAID6 with a small number of disks?
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