From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe 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 Message-ID: References: <47CBBD11.4020501@gmail.com> <47CBC516.5050904@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Tor Arne Vestb=F8 wrote: > But does that explain why mdadm believes I have another disk, a fifth= =20 > disk, that has been removed? The ID numbers of the real disks are=20 > 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 --=20 > 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." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html