From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Clements Subject: Re: RAID5 recovery after disk-change Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 14:04:42 -0400 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3F3A7DBA.ECEDB7D8@SteelEye.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: To: Simon Frettloeh Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Simon Frettloeh wrote: > So it seems, that hdg1 moved by itself from "4" to "2". What happened > (according to my previous email)? > > Do I have to do any further things or is my RAID now working fine? This is normal behavior. When a spare disk is added, it is placed into the array above the normal disk slots (in your case, slots 4 and up) and is then resynced. Once resync is complete, the disk is moved into the first open normal slot (in your case, slot 2) and is then used as part of the array. -- Paul