linux-raid.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Keld Simonsen <keld@keldix.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: activating spares
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:18:09 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100310201809.03217bfd@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100310074343.GA26813@light.rap.dk>

On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:43:43 +0100
Keld Simonsen <keld@keldix.com> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I made a raid10,f2 arrray (actually 2 arrays) with only one
> active disk, one missing. This was after 2 disks were found faulty,
> and I then copied the data from my faulty raid to the new  raid, and
> installed my other new 2 TB disk. I added the new disk with
>      mdadm /dev/md9 --add /dev/sdg1
> and it was then listed as a spare. I wanted to activate it, and thought
> that --add ing it would automatically start resyncing, but no...
> I then tried to force resyncing by 
>      mdadm -A /dev/md9 --update resync
> but it did not work either. Now I am lost. How do I activate the spare?
> 
> kernel 2.6.12 mdadm v1.12.0

Wow, that's OLD!..
Maybe try a newer kernel, it has probably been fixed.

Yes, --adding the device could cause it to store recovery.  I do recall there
have been a few different situations that caused that not to work, but I
don't recall the details.

If you have a service contract, complain to your vendor.  If not, upgraded to 
something a bit less than 5 years old ;-)

sorry I cannot be more helpful.

NeilBrown

> 
> best regards
> keld
> --
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in
> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
> More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html


      reply	other threads:[~2010-03-10  9:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-10  7:43 activating spares Keld Simonsen
2010-03-10  9:18 ` Neil Brown [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20100310201809.03217bfd@notabene.brown \
    --to=neilb@suse.de \
    --cc=keld@keldix.com \
    --cc=linux-raid@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).