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From: Ross Vandegrift <ross@willow.seitz.com>
To: David Chow <davidchow@shaolinmicro.com>
Cc: Raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RAID-1 does not rebuild after hot-add
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 13:06:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030804170620.GA3159@willow.seitz.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F2E8B0E.6060007@shaolinmicro.com>

On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 12:34:22AM +0800, David Chow wrote:
> >Did you try:
> >mdadm /dev/md2 -a /dev/sda3
> >mdadm /dev/md3 -a /dev/sda5
> >mdadm /dev/md4 -a /dev/sda6
> > 
> >
> Already tried. I notice this problem happens in Redhat distributions 
> since 7.3 to 9 . When attempting to hot add disks, it doesn't rebuild. I 
> am wondering are there ioctls that I can call the md to start rebuild 
> without having to wait for an auto rebuild action.

I wonder - have you accidently created a mirror and then added a
hot-spare?  I've run into this problem before when switching to mdadm,
and it confused me pretty well.

What's your /etc/raidtab look like?


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-04 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-03 14:43 RAID-1 does not rebuild after hot-add David Chow
2003-08-03 16:55 ` Stephen Lee
2003-08-04 16:34   ` David Chow
2003-08-04 17:06     ` Ross Vandegrift [this message]
2003-08-04 17:46       ` Paul Clements
2003-08-04  0:38 ` Neil Brown
2003-08-04 16:41   ` David Chow
2003-08-05  2:16     ` Neil Brown
2003-08-05  6:32       ` David Chow
2003-08-05  6:53         ` Neil Brown
2003-08-05 11:58           ` David Chow
2003-08-06  1:01             ` Neil Brown
2003-08-04 12:41 ` Andrew Rechenberg
2003-08-04 16:32   ` David Chow

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