From: Richard Scobie <richard@sauce.co.nz>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: telling mdadm to use spare drive.
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:13:19 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47320E4F.3070308@sauce.co.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071107182602.61162e00@absurd>
Janek Kozicki wrote:
> Goswin von Brederlow said: (by the date of Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:17:51 +0100)
>
>
>>Strange. That is exactly how I always do it and it always just worked.
>>mdadm should start syncing on any spare as soon as a disk fails or you
>>add the spare to a degraded array afaik. No special "start now"
>>interaction needed.
>
>
> Thanks for your confirmation. I cannot explain this behaviour - I
> just started using mdadm. If anybody here wants, I can remove the
> drive and add this again, to see if I can duplicate this "bug" (?).
> If so - then tell me what debug information you do need and I will
> give it to you.
What kernel and RAID level is this?
If it's RAID 1, I seem to recall there was a relatively recently fixed
bug for this.
Regards,
Richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-07 19:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-04 16:05 telling mdadm to use spare drive Janek Kozicki
2007-11-05 10:58 ` man mdadm - suggested correction Janek Kozicki
2007-11-05 18:08 ` Michael Tokarev
2007-11-05 10:58 ` Janek Kozicki
2007-11-05 11:04 ` Janek Kozicki
2007-11-07 9:17 ` telling mdadm to use spare drive Goswin von Brederlow
2007-11-07 17:26 ` Janek Kozicki
2007-11-07 19:13 ` Richard Scobie [this message]
2007-11-08 20:28 ` Janek Kozicki
2007-11-08 21:32 ` Richard Scobie
2007-11-09 9:50 ` Janek Kozicki
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