<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote">I have removed disks from linux software arrays dozens of times (a lot of this was with testing) and even hot added new ones back never loosing any data or having any difficulty at all getting the array back up. If you need help with that please post the error messages and exactly what commands you have tried.
<br></div></blockquote></div><br>I forgot to mention that I even have forced a reboot while rebuilding and also while reshaping and it worked flawlessly. This is mostly with recent kernels and versions of mdadm though.<br>
<br>John<br>