From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Michael Evans <mjevans1983@gmail.com>
Cc: Ken D'Ambrosio <ken@jots.org>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAID MIA. Again. (Kinda.)
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 07:38:30 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100306073830.40f10294@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4877c76c1003051205i23998a72xc9df3174c1e7fd17@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 12:05:32 -0800
Michael Evans <mjevans1983@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's a stab at it. I've never tried to do it like this and haven't
> glanced at the code so I can't be sure, but this seems to be the most
> likely suspect:
>
> #ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=4 devices=sda2,sdb2,sdd2,sdc2
>
> Your commented out version seems to specify this mapping
> 0,sda2
> 1,sdb2
> 2,sdd2
> 3,sdc2
>
No it doesn't. The 'devices=' lists is an unordered list (as set?). It just
says "only try to include these devices in the array". They still have to
have valid metadata, and it is the content of the metadata the defines the
role of the device in the array.
NeilBrown
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-05 20:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-04 16:12 RAID MIA. Again. (Kinda.) Ken D'Ambrosio
2010-03-04 20:50 ` Neil Brown
2010-03-04 22:00 ` Ken D'Ambrosio
[not found] ` <4877c76c1003041421s42717938he6567434b74ec125@mail.gmail.com>
2010-03-04 22:24 ` Michael Evans
2010-03-04 23:41 ` Ken D'Ambrosio
2010-03-05 1:22 ` Michael Evans
2010-03-05 1:30 ` Neil Brown
2010-03-05 15:24 ` Ken D'Ambrosio
2010-03-05 20:05 ` Michael Evans
2010-03-05 20:38 ` Neil Brown [this message]
2010-03-06 3:18 ` Michael Evans
2010-03-05 20:37 ` Neil Brown
2010-03-09 14:43 ` Ken D'Ambrosio
2010-03-09 16:29 ` John Robinson
2010-03-09 19:49 ` Neil Brown
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