8.04 md raid5 troubleshooting

[Reinhard Haller]

Am 09.11.2011 14:04, schrieb Marius Gedminas:
>> What is the suggested way to get the array back working?
> Connect the spare drive, partition it, use mdadm to hot-add it, wait
> while it syncs in the background.

Does it make sense to create a RAID-1 with the spare drive and the 
"defective" drive to clone the boot partition (assuming the defective 
drive is responsive)?

Reinhard