From: Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe <Mario.Holbe@TU-Ilmenau.DE>
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: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 10:55:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fqghv3$82v$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 47CBC516.5050904@gmail.com
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.
regards
Mario
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> As Luke Leighton said once on samba-ntdom, "now, what was that about
> rebooting? that was so long ago, i had to look it up with man -k."
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-03 9:55 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
2008-03-03 10:01 ` Tor Arne Vestbø
2008-03-04 9:47 ` Tor Arne Vestbø
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