From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Norman Elton Subject: Re: How many drives are bad? Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:24:19 -0500 Message-ID: <21289113-077C-4082-8EE1-C7AA11D4FE69@gmail.com> References: <6b3a7f010802190923v6b600fedy2a68ad6797449c6e@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Justin Piszcz Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids But why do two show up as "removed"?? I would expect /dev/sdal1 to show up someplace, either active or failed. Any ideas? Thanks, Norman On Feb 19, 2008, at 12:31 PM, Justin Piszcz wrote: > How many drives actually failed? >> Failed Devices : 1 > > > On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Norman Elton wrote: > >> So I had my first "failure" today, when I got a report that one drive >> (/dev/sdam) failed. I've attached the output of "mdadm --detail". It >> appears that two drives are listed as "removed", but the array is >> still functioning. What does this mean? How many drives actually >> failed? >> >> This is all a test system, so I can dink around as much as necessary. >> Thanks for any advice! >> >> Norman Elton >> >> ====== OUTPUT OF MDADM ===== >> >> Version : 00.90.03 >> Creation Time : Fri Jan 18 13:17:33 2008 >> Raid Level : raid5 >> Array Size : 6837319552 (6520.58 GiB 7001.42 GB) >> Device Size : 976759936 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB) >> Raid Devices : 8 >> Total Devices : 7 >> Preferred Minor : 4 >> Persistence : Superblock is persistent >> >> Update Time : Mon Feb 18 11:49:13 2008 >> State : clean, degraded >> Active Devices : 6 >> Working Devices : 6 >> Failed Devices : 1 >> Spare Devices : 0 >> >> Layout : left-symmetric >> Chunk Size : 64K >> >> UUID : b16bdcaf:a20192fb:39c74cb8:e5e60b20 >> Events : 0.110 >> >> Number Major Minor RaidDevice State >> 0 66 1 0 active sync /dev/sdag1 >> 1 66 17 1 active sync /dev/sdah1 >> 2 66 33 2 active sync /dev/sdai1 >> 3 66 49 3 active sync /dev/sdaj1 >> 4 66 65 4 active sync /dev/sdak1 >> 5 0 0 5 removed >> 6 0 0 6 removed >> 7 66 113 7 active sync /dev/sdan1 >> >> 8 66 97 - faulty spare /dev/sdam1 >> - >> 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 >>