From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk Subject: Re: Degraded Raid6 Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:51:06 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <15214561.24.1355424666351.JavaMail.root@zimbra> References: <20121212204907.248080@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20121212204907.248080@gmx.net> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Bernd Waage Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids > I run an 8-disk raid 6 on which sporadically 2 drives dropped out, > that I could just re-add when I zeroed the zuperblock beforehand. > Recently, upon re-adding those 2 drives (after the zero-superblock) a > third drive dropped out after 5-10 minutes of syncing. I then did a > zero-superblock on the third drive and tried to re-add it - which > failed. =2E.. > 10 8 113 - spare /dev/sdh1 > 11 8 1 - spare /dev/sda1 > 12 8 65 - spare /dev/sde1 If you had two drives failing, why didn't you let these spares take ove= r the job? Vennlige hilsener / Best regards roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (+47) 98013356 roy@karlsbakk.net http://blogg.karlsbakk.net/ GPG Public key: http://karlsbakk.net/roysigurdkarlsbakk.pubkey.txt -- I all pedagogikk er det essensielt at pensum presenteres intelligibelt.= Det er et element=C3=A6rt imperativ for alle pedagoger =C3=A5 unng=C3=A5= eksessiv anvendelse av idiomer med xenotyp etymologi. I de fleste tilf= eller eksisterer adekvate og relevante synonymer p=C3=A5 norsk. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html