From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Molle Bestefich Subject: Re: Drive fails & raid6 array is not self rebuild . Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 21:34:09 +0200 Message-ID: <62b0912f0509081234326cc15a@mail.gmail.com> References: <60F5F1E2B94AD4119F0B00B0D0215FFF01A69F99@bsc.tt.umist.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "Mr. James W. Laferriere" Cc: linux-raid maillist List-Id: linux-raid.ids Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > Is there a documented procedure to follow during > creation or after that will get a raid6 array to self > rebuild ? MD will rebuild your array automatically, given that it has a spare disk to use. > raid5: Disk failure on sde, disabling device. Operation continuing on 35 devices Seems like a raid5, not raid6.. > [UU_UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU] No need to do any rebuilding on the remaining devices, since the data on them are fine. You've lost redundancy however, so you should add a new disk to the array ASAP. With 35 disks, I'd recommend that you at least use raid6 in place of raid5..