Yup.

When a disk is removed from a RAID group, for whatever reason, the filer will use the smallest possible hot spare disk that it can. (It cannot, of course, reconstruct onto a disk that was smaller than the original.) If a hot spare of the same size isn't available, it will pick the next largest one.

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-----Original Message----- From: Jim Harm [mailto:harm1@llnl.gov] Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 3:24 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Which spare 9 or 18 or 36

Dear super informative list;

Let's say there is a volume of 9 GB drives in a 760 and another volume of 18 GB(or 36 GB). Now I have a 9 GB spare and an 18 GB spare in the box also. When a drive dies, does the box pick the spare of the same size as the failed disk to rebuild?

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