Re: md RAID5: Disk wrongly marked "spare", need to force re-add it

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>]

> Brad Campbell wrote, On 21.04.2013 09:23:
> > As others have already told you, md does not go randomly kicking
> > drives from arrays. Your system had a failure of some kind which
> > caused the loss of two drives.
> 
> You ignore the facts and do "mi mi mi" in face of bugs reports. 2
> different arrays lost 1 drive, both at the same time at reboot after
> the
> OS upgrade, and both drives are working fine. Facts.
> 
> And even *if* they had a temporary error, my case shows why it's a
> *bug*
> to kick them out of the array. And it's a *bug* to not let me put them
> back in with data. Tons of other people have suffered dataloss because
> of various temporary, easily recoverable problems and these 2 bugs.
> 
> People like you are the reason why people like me suffer dataloss.

Well, just restore from backup. Shouldn't be too hard.

Vennlige hilsener / Best regards

roy
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