Re: Device role question

[Michael Evans <mjevans1983@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Piergiorgio Sartor
<piergiorgio.sartor@nexgo.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Spare should mean that it is not currently a synced member of the
>> array; in other words a hot-spare.  As I recall raid10 cannot
>> currently be grown (or /may/ only be grown with VERY recent
>> tools+kernels); did you maybe create a single device raid10 and try to
>> grow it?
>
> uhm, well, not really, but almost.
>
> If I remember correctly, at least one of the arrays
> with "spare", was created with missing disk, added
> then later.
>
> BTW, I also notice another array, still RAID-10,
> where both the disks have "spare" role...
>
> Thanks,
>
> bye,
>
> --
>
> piergiorgio
>

Ok, please run this for each disk in the array:

mdadm --examine /dev/(DEVICE)

The output would be most readable if you did each array's devices in
order, and you can list them on the same command (- - examine takes
multiple inputs)

If you still think the situation isn't as I described above, post the results.
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