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From: Richard Scobie <richard@sauce.co.nz>
Subject: Re: telling mdadm to use spare drive.
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:32:08 +1300
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Janek Kozicki wrote:
> Richard Scobie said:     (by the date of Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:13:19 +1300)
> 
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> debian etch, stock install
> Linux 2.6.18-5-k7 #1 SMP i686 GNU/Linux
> 
> The problem was with was RAID 5.
> 
> But also I have RAID 1 there, and after --add the drives
> automatically resynced.
> 

OK.

This was the bug I was thinking of:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-raid&m=116003247912732&w=2

Regards,

Richard