I have a drive failing in my pool, and nothing I’ve done has resulted in being able to keep the pool mounted in rw or degraded,rw. After a few minutes, or maybe even seconds, it falls back to ro. These drives are 8+ years old, so I’m thinking of just replacing them.
Is it possible to:
- systemctl disable rockstore-pre rockstore rockstore-botstrap
- Buy 4 new drives in USB cases (Easystores)
- Connect the drives via USB
- Create a RAID5 pool with the USB connected drives
- Copy all data from the degraded pool to “new_pool”
- Uninstall hard drives from server
- Shuck the Easystores
- Install the Easystores into the server
- systemctl enable rockstore-pre rockstore rockstore-botstrap
- Import the drives as “old_pool”
I think the hard drives may be encrypted while in the Easystore case, so I suspect the answer is no. If that is the case, would this work if I acquired some generic USB hard drive docking stations?