From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
Subject: Re: RAID5 - 2nd drive died whilst waiting for RMA
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 18:30:27 +0000
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Guy wrote:

>NO!!!!!
>
>Bad plan, but almost correct.
>If you "--add" a disk, md would think it is a new disk.  And none of the
>existing data would be used.  The array would not start anyway.  But if you
>use the instructions below, you should get your array back to normal.
>  
>
OK, that's encouraging :)

>+ Stop array:
>+ "mdadm /dev/md0 -S"
>  
>
mdadm: fail to stop array /dev/md0: Device or resource busy
Basically they're still mounted and can't unmount 'cos the nfsds are 
running.

Is a reboot the right thing? (back into single user)

David