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From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Interpreting mdstat output
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 13:40:14 +0000
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On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 01:02:37PM +0000, Robin Hill wrote:
> > 1. The UUUU_ and [22/21] suggests that one disk is bad, but is that true?
> > And if so which one?
> > 
> No, that's normal. A RAID5 (or RAID6) array is created in a degraded
> form, then the last disk(s) are recovered (it's the quickest way of
> getting the array ready for use).

Ah I see. Thank you.