[dm-crypt] SparesMissing event on /dev/md4:nsa320 (fwd)

[dm-crypt] SparesMissing event on /dev/md4:nsa320 (fwd)

[grumpy]

i upgraded an old nas device from debian 8 to 9 and started get'n this message
what's the dang deal :)
i don't have any spares


root@nsa320:~# mdadm -D /dev/md4
/dev/md4:
         Version : 0.90
   Creation Time : Tue Mar  5 13:16:13 2013
      Raid Level : raid1
      Array Size : 1932713920 (1843.18 GiB 1979.10 GB)
   Used Dev Size : 1932713920 (1843.18 GiB 1979.10 GB)
    Raid Devices : 2
   Total Devices : 2
Preferred Minor : 4
     Persistence : Superblock is persistent

     Update Time : Thu Jul  9 06:13:34 2020
           State : clean
  Active Devices : 2
Working Devices : 2
  Failed Devices : 0
   Spare Devices : 0

            UUID : dc6cc046:ef4012cc:ecea512d:0eb28517 (local to host nsa320)
          Events : 0.99097

     Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
        0       8       20        0      active sync   /dev/sdb4
        1       8        4        1      active sync   /dev/sda4



---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 18:20:14 -0500
From: mdadm monitoring <root@localhost.localdomain>
To: root@nsa320.grumpy-net
Subject: SparesMissing event on /dev/md4:nsa320

This is an automatically generated mail message from mdadm
running on nsa320

A SparesMissing event had been detected on md device /dev/md4.

Faithfully yours, etc.

P.S. The /proc/mdstat file currently contains the following:

Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [multipath]
md2 : active raid1 sda2[1] sdb2[0]
       19573696 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md4 : active raid1 sda4[1] sdb4[0]
       1932713920 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md3 : active raid1 sda3[1] sdb3[0]
       975808 blocks [2/2] [UU]

unused devices: <none>

Re: [dm-crypt] SparesMissing event on /dev/md4:nsa320 (fwd)

[Arno Wagner]

Hi,

your array looks fine. But this is not a topic for the
cryptsetup mailing list. Please use Debian support 
for this.

Regards,
Arno


On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 14:25:05 CEST, grumpy@mailfence.com wrote:
> i upgraded an old nas device from debian 8 to 9 and started get'n this message
> what's the dang deal :)
> i don't have any spares
> 
> 
> root@nsa320:~# mdadm -D /dev/md4
> /dev/md4:
>         Version : 0.90
>   Creation Time : Tue Mar  5 13:16:13 2013
>      Raid Level : raid1
>      Array Size : 1932713920 (1843.18 GiB 1979.10 GB)
>   Used Dev Size : 1932713920 (1843.18 GiB 1979.10 GB)
>    Raid Devices : 2
>   Total Devices : 2
> Preferred Minor : 4
>     Persistence : Superblock is persistent
> 
>     Update Time : Thu Jul  9 06:13:34 2020
>           State : clean
>  Active Devices : 2
> Working Devices : 2
>  Failed Devices : 0
>   Spare Devices : 0
> 
>            UUID : dc6cc046:ef4012cc:ecea512d:0eb28517 (local to host nsa320)
>          Events : 0.99097
> 
>     Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
>        0       8       20        0      active sync   /dev/sdb4
>        1       8        4        1      active sync   /dev/sda4
> 
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 18:20:14 -0500
> From: mdadm monitoring <root@localhost.localdomain>
> To: root@nsa320.grumpy-net
> Subject: SparesMissing event on /dev/md4:nsa320
> 
> This is an automatically generated mail message from mdadm
> running on nsa320
> 
> A SparesMissing event had been detected on md device /dev/md4.
> 
> Faithfully yours, etc.
> 
> P.S. The /proc/mdstat file currently contains the following:
> 
> Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [multipath]
> md2 : active raid1 sda2[1] sdb2[0]
>       19573696 blocks [2/2] [UU]
> 
> md4 : active raid1 sda4[1] sdb4[0]
>       1932713920 blocks [2/2] [UU]
> 
> md3 : active raid1 sda3[1] sdb3[0]
>       975808 blocks [2/2] [UU]
> 
> unused devices: <none>
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