From: Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
To: Janek Kozicki <janek_listy@wp.pl>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: telling mdadm to use spare drive.
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:17:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bqa6jtxc.fsf@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071104170502.6db7fcb1@absurd> (Janek Kozicki's message of "Sun, 4 Nov 2007 17:05:02 +0100")
Janek Kozicki <janek_listy@wp.pl> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I finished copying all data from old disc hdc to my shiny new
> RAID5 array (/dev/hda3 /dev/sda3 missing). Next step is to create a
> partition on hdc and add it to the array. And so I did this:
>
> # mdadm --add /dev/md1 /dev/hdc3
>
> But then I had a problem - the /dev/hdc3 was a spare, it didn't
> resync automatically:
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.
MfG
Goswin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-07 9:17 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 ` Goswin von Brederlow [this message]
2007-11-07 17:26 ` telling mdadm to use spare drive Janek Kozicki
2007-11-07 19:13 ` Richard Scobie
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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