From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Greaves Subject: Re: mdadm --grow failed Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:51:22 +0000 Message-ID: <45D83DBA.3090208@dgreaves.com> References: <20070217030514.M74974@liquid-nexus.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20070217030514.M74974@liquid-nexus.net> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Marc Marais Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Marc Marais wrote: [snip] > Unfortunately one of the drives timed out during the operation (not a read > error - just a timeout - which I would've thought would be retried but > anyway...): > Help appreciated. (I do have a full backup of course but that's a last > resort with my luck I'd get a read error from the tape drive) Hi Marc It looks like you've since recreated the array and restored your data - good :) It doesn't appear that you mentioned the kernel and distro you are using and the software versions. I'm sure this is something people will need. David