From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dirk Jagdmann Subject: Re: Creating RAID1 with "missing" - mdadm 1.90 Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 14:29:01 +0100 Message-ID: <5d0f6099050306052950914bad@mail.gmail.com> References: <422A2FD1.2010106@panix.com> Reply-To: Dirk Jagdmann Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <422A2FD1.2010106@panix.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: berk walker Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids I have successfully set up a raid1 in degraded mode with this command line: mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 missing /dev/hda2 I have experienced problems when the "missing" drive was the second and the array would not initialize correctly when a real disk was added later. When "missing" is the first I did not have any problems. (Those problems were with linux 2.4 kernels, maybe this is solved with 2.6, but I did had the opportunity to check yet) -- ---> Dirk Jagdmann ----> http://cubic.org/~doj -----> http://llg.cubic.org