From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Vanhorn, Mike" Subject: Re: Help with failed RAID-5 -> 6 migration Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:42:41 +0000 Message-ID: References: <51B6FF7E.1000707@turmel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <51B6FF7E.1000707@turmel.org> Content-Language: en-US Content-ID: <7ECDA698DA37F045839B53F75F873480@prod.exchangelabs.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Phil Turmel , Keith Phillips Cc: "linux-raid@vger.kernel.org" List-Id: linux-raid.ids Using Keith Phillips' reported output from /proc/mdstat and mdadm --detail, I have a question: /proc/mdstat says that the array is "inactive": >>--------------------------- >> Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] >> [raid4] [raid10] >> md0 : inactive sde[4] sdc[1] sdb[0] sdd[3] >> 7814054240 blocks super 1.2 >> >> unused devices: >> --------------------------- But mdadm --detail says >> State : active, degraded, Not Started and goes on to show that the array is rebuilding using the spare. So, how can it be both "inactive" and "active", and be rebuilding but "Not Started"? I think this is just my un-clarity concerning what these terms mean. Thanks! --- Mike VanHorn Senior Computer Systems Administrator College of Engineering and Computer Science Wright State University 265 Russ Engineering Center 937-775-5157 michael.vanhorn@wright.edu http://www.cecs.wright.edu/~mvanhorn/