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From: Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor@nexgo.de>
To: Michael Evans <mjevans1983@gmail.com>
Cc: Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor@nexgo.de>,
	linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Device role question
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:08:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100227080845.GA2287@lazy.lzy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4877c76c1002262156k6675877am79a7da9b63446dc7@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

> Spare should mean that it is not currently a synced member of the
> array; in other words a hot-spare.  As I recall raid10 cannot
> currently be grown (or /may/ only be grown with VERY recent
> tools+kernels); did you maybe create a single device raid10 and try to
> grow it?

uhm, well, not really, but almost.

If I remember correctly, at least one of the arrays
with "spare", was created with missing disk, added
then later.

BTW, I also notice another array, still RAID-10,
where both the disks have "spare" role...

Thanks,

bye,

-- 

piergiorgio

  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-27  8:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-26 14:23 Device role question Piergiorgio Sartor
2010-02-27  5:56 ` Michael Evans
2010-02-27  8:08   ` Piergiorgio Sartor [this message]
2010-02-27  8:55     ` Michael Evans
2010-02-27  9:10       ` Piergiorgio Sartor
2010-02-28  3:34         ` Michael Evans
2010-02-28 10:38           ` Piergiorgio Sartor
2010-02-28  4:41         ` Neil Brown
2010-02-28 10:35           ` Piergiorgio Sartor

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