also sprach Dan Pascu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.11.01.2323 +0100]: > Also I've noticed something weird in the test you did. After failing sde1 > from md99 and stopping the array, when it was started with the startup > script it said it assembled md99 with 2 drives. The same was said by > mdadm --assemble later, as if between stopping and starting it the failed > drive was magically re-added. The message should have been something > like "starting degraded array with 1 drive (out of 2)" if I'm not > mistaken.
No, because the drives were only marked as failed but not yet removed. On reassembly, they just get added again. Are you seeing different behaviour? > Personalities : [raid1] > md1 : active raid1 sdb2[1] sda2[0] > 231609024 blocks [2/2] [UU] > bitmap: 5/221 pages [20KB], 512KB chunk > > md0 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0] > 12586816 blocks [2/2] [UU] > bitmap: 12/193 pages [48KB], 32KB chunk You are using bitmaps, I am not. Maybe that's the cause? Could you please recreate the problem from scratch and show me *all* steps? -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems
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