From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "NeilBrown" Subject: Re: Spares Missing event in case of spare group? Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:39:04 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <0ad180f4fb306d79e27eb9c822acdbaf.squirrel@neil.brown.name> References: <49EB4B07.9050208@computer.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <49EB4B07.9050208@computer.org> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jan Ceuleers Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Mon, April 20, 2009 2:02 am, Jan Ceuleers wrote: > Hi! > > I have two RAID1 sets of equal size, with one spare shared between them. > When I reboot the system I get a Spares Missing notification on one of > the arrays. > > Since this is a false positive, is there a way to avoid it? Yes. Remove the "spares=1" from each line. The sole effect of this text is to tell --monitor to expect a spare, and to complain if no spare is found. NeilBrown > > Extract from mdadm.conf: > > ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2 spares=1 > UUID=19e69537:f7a6aec8:5a5f7576:3fc29e0d spare-group=swapgroup > ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid1 num-devices=2 spares=1 > UUID=5e728621:c8b356a8:01f8e270:f0e280cb spare-group=swapgroup > > Thanks, Jan > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >