From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Greaves Subject: Re: Preparation advice? Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 11:04:51 +0000 Message-ID: <41A9B0D3.4070701@dgreaves.com> References: <6d5bedd8041126205255c0fe7d@mail.gmail.com> <6d5bedd8041127082528ce68ec@mail.gmail.com> <41A8C57A.1060803@dgreaves.com> <6d5bedd8041127123945b8db48@mail.gmail.com> <41A8EA54.6090708@dgreaves.com> <6d5bedd8041127135230b95202@mail.gmail.com> <41A91263.1010909@dgreaves.com> <6d5bedd804112716277c31207c@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <6d5bedd804112716277c31207c@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Ewan Grantham Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Well, there's nothing wrong with /etc/fstab etc but you do have an odd report from mdadm. Back to the list... :) Ewan's running 2.4.27 and may have an inconsistency with mdadm counting the number of raid devices. Ewan Grantham wrote: > also send me the output from: > mdadm --detail /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 00.90.00 Creation Time : Sat Nov 27 07:32:34 2004 Raid Level : raid5 Array Size : 735334656 (701.27 GiB 752.98 GB) Device Size : 245111552 (233.76 GiB 250.99 GB) Raid Devices : 4 Total Devices : 5 Preferred Minor : 0 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Sat Nov 27 14:14:24 2004 State : dirty Active Devices : 4 Working Devices : 4 Failed Devices : 1 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 128K UUID : 525b6c6e:836b8598:b3778337:0be081e8 Events : 0.2 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 33 0 active sync /dev/sdc1 1 8 49 1 active sync /dev/sdd1 2 3 65 2 active sync /dev/hdb1 3 22 65 3 active sync /dev/hdd1 >>I wonder if you have an older version of mdadm? >>mdadm -V >>can you upgrade to 1.7 ? >> >> > >mdadm - v1.7.0 - 11 August 2004 > > > >>What command did you use to create the array? >> >> > >mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=5 -c128 > --raid-devices=4 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/hdb1 /dev/hdd1 > > > >>What kernel version are you running? >> >> > >2.4.27 > > > >>Have you put data on the array yet? (if not we may blat and rebuild it) >> >> > >Yes, but nothing I can't live without at this point. More a matter of >the time it takes - about 6 hours. But would rather take another 6 >hours than be likely to lose what I have on there... > >Let me know if there's something else I should look at/do... > > what does cat /proc/mdstat say? David