From: "Tor Arne Vestbø" <torarnv@gmail.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Creating RAID5 with four devices and end up with 5 (one removed and one spare). Why?
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 10:47:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47CD1AA0.100@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fqghv3$82v$1@ger.gmane.org>
Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote:
> Tor Arne Vestbø <torarnv@gmail.com> wrote:
>> But does that explain why mdadm believes I have another disk, a fifth
>> disk, that has been removed? The ID numbers of the real disks are
>> 0,1,2,4 but I would expect 0,1,2,3:
>
> Once the rebuild has finished, you will have exactly the latter.
> md stores raid-disks in different slots than not-yet-raid-disks.
Of course, you were right :) I waited for the array to sync, and what do
you know! My 0,1,2,3,4 one failure, one spare array turned into a
0,1,2,3 clean everything fine array :P
Thanks!
Tor Arne
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-03 8:55 Creating RAID5 with four devices and end up with 5 (one removed and one spare). Why? Tor Arne Vestbø
2008-03-03 9:19 ` Robin Hill
2008-03-03 9:29 ` Tor Arne Vestbø
2008-03-03 9:55 ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
2008-03-03 10:01 ` Tor Arne Vestbø
2008-03-04 9:47 ` Tor Arne Vestbø [this message]
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