From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: which disk the the one that data is on? Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:16:37 -0400 Message-ID: <44BCDF35.9060906@tmr.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Shai Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Shai wrote: > Hi, > > I rebooted my server today to find out that one of the arrays is being > re-synced (see output below) > . > 1. What does the (S) to the right of hdh1[5](S) mean? > 2. How do I know, from this output, which disk is the one holding the > most current data and from which all the other drives are syncing > from? Or are they all containing the data and this sync process is > something else? Maybe I'm just not understanding what is being done > exactly? In addition to what you have already been told, if you "find out" that the array is in rebuild I would be a lot more worried to find out why. If it was from unclean shutdown you really should look into a bitmap if you don't have one. -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979