From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Simon Subject: The array is functioning normally (?) Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 21:38:59 -0400 Message-ID: <468C4BB3.3020400@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids I made the 3 devices faulty. I wonder why it's still clean and --test says it's functionning normally?! Thanks for any info! Simon ===(`/sbin/mdadm -v -v --detail /dev/md1`)====================================== /dev/md1: Version : 00.90.03 Creation Time : Tue Jul 3 16:29:38 2007 Raid Level : raid5 Array Size : 2011648 (1964.83 MiB 2059.93 MB) Used Dev Size : 1005824 (982.41 MiB 1029.96 MB) Raid Devices : 3 Total Devices : 3 Preferred Minor : 1 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Wed Jul 4 19:43:37 2007 State : clean, degraded Active Devices : 0 Working Devices : 0 Failed Devices : 3 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 0 0 0 removed 1 0 0 1 removed 2 0 0 2 removed 3 8 50 - faulty spare /dev/sdd2 4 8 18 - faulty spare /dev/sdb2 5 8 34 - faulty spare /dev/sdc2 ------------------------- Return was: 0 ---[ 0 = running | 256 = inactive ]--- ===(`/sbin/lsraid -a /dev/md1`)================================================= [dev 9, 1] /dev/md1 00000000.00000000.00000000.00000000 online [dev ?, ?] (unknown) 00000000.00000000.00000000.00000000 missing [dev ?, ?] (unknown) 00000000.00000000.00000000.00000000 missing [dev ?, ?] (unknown) 00000000.00000000.00000000.00000000 missing ------------------------------------------------------------ Return was: 0 --- Return from `/sbin/mdadm /dev/md1 --detail --test` gave: mdadm: The array is functioning normally. ================================================================================