From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ross Vandegrift Subject: Re: RAID-1 does not rebuild after hot-add Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 13:06:20 -0400 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030804170620.GA3159@willow.seitz.com> References: <3F2D1FAC.9030905@shaolinmicro.com> <1059929757.6751.60.camel@ralph.plexio.private> <3F2E8B0E.6060007@shaolinmicro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F2E8B0E.6060007@shaolinmicro.com> To: David Chow Cc: Raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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? -- Ross Vandegrift ross@willow.seitz.com A Pope has a Water Cannon. It is a Water Cannon. He fires Holy-Water from it. It is a Holy-Water Cannon. He Blesses it. It is a Holy Holy-Water Cannon. He Blesses the Hell out of it. It is a Wholly Holy Holy-Water Cannon. He has it pierced. It is a Holey Wholly Holy Holy-Water Cannon. He makes it official. It is a Canon Holey Wholly Holy Holy-Water Cannon. Batman and Robin arrive. He shoots them.