On Wednesday August 20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The current Debian sid kernel 2.6.26-2 does sync the disks if I add > them. > I tried now even the newer 2.6.27-rc3-git6 out, because it has a few MD > changes. > That one adds the disks only as `spare' but does not start a resync.
I cannot reproduce this. This is surprising though: > fz-vm:~# cat /proc/mdstat > Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] > [multipath] > md0 : active raid10 sdc1[4](S) sdf1[3] sde1[2] sdd1[1] > 16771584 blocks 64K chunks 2 near-copies [4/3] [_UUU] > > unused devices: <none> Here there is one failed device. There is one spare but the array isn't resyncing. And... > fz-vm:~# mdadm -Q --detail /dev/md0 > /dev/md0: > Version : 00.90 > Creation Time : Wed Aug 20 09:03:27 2008 > Raid Level : raid10 > Array Size : 16771584 (15.99 GiB 17.17 GB) > Used Dev Size : 8385792 (8.00 GiB 8.59 GB) > Raid Devices : 4 > Total Devices : 4 > Preferred Minor : 0 > Persistence : Superblock is persistent > > Update Time : Wed Aug 20 09:07:32 2008 > State : clean, degraded > Active Devices : 3 > Working Devices : 4 > Failed Devices : 0 > Spare Devices : 1 > > Layout : near=2, far=1 > Chunk Size : 64K > > UUID : 04e72c15:980e57a0:89ccbef7:ff5abfb0 (local to host fz-vm) > Events : 0.10 > > Number Major Minor RaidDevice State > 0 0 0 0 removed > 1 8 49 1 active sync /dev/sdd1 > 2 8 65 2 active sync /dev/sde1 > 3 8 81 3 active sync /dev/sdf1 > > 4 8 33 - spare /dev/sdc1 > fz-vm:~# cat /proc/mdstat > Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] > [multipath] > md0 : active raid10 sdd1[4](S) sdc1[5](S) sdf1[3] sde1[2] > 16771584 blocks 64K chunks 2 near-copies [4/2] [__UU] Here there are two failed devices. What happened? Do the kernel logs show anything between these two "cat /proc/mdstat"s? NeilBrown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]