On Mon, 2 Apr 2012, Wayne Johnson wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Apr 2012, Mike Miller wrote:
>
>> Suppose one drive failed in my RAID1 mirrored pair.  Can I then simply 
>> pull the bad drive, replace it with a good one (brand new), and have it 
>> work?  Will it just automagically rebuild the RAID1 by mirroring onto 
>> the new drive?
>>
>> This is Ubuntu software RAID1.
>
> Actually, in my experience, the drive may not have a permement failue.  
> You can re-activate the drive again, it will resync the failed drive, 
> and you are running again.  If it happens too frequently, replace the 
> drive. 

How do I reactivate a drive?  That sounds like a great idea.

Mike