From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: bug in --manage mode Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:39:05 -0400 Message-ID: <46D576F9.2090205@tmr.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: exe@agava.com Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids exe@agava.com wrote: > Hello, I hit a bug in mdadm. > > According to "--manage --help" this must work, but it doesn't: > > -bash-3.2# mdadm --manage -a /dev/md2 /dev/sda3 > mdadm: /dev/sda3 does not appear to be an md device I think that the "-a" is being parsed as "--auto" rather than "--add" in this case. I rarely use --manage, so I want to go look at the 2.6.3 code, this is just a speculation at this point, but it does fit the behavior. Don't know why the "/dev/md2" doesn't generate an error if it's being parsed as something else, though. > > But this works fine: > -bash-3.2# mdadm --manage --add /dev/md2 /dev/sda3 > mdadm: re-added /dev/sda3 > > > The version is: > LFS:root@~:mdadm --version > mdadm - v2.6.2 - 21st May 2007 -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979