[Bug 945786] Re: mdadm refuses to re-add failed member

2012-04-17 Thread Brian Murray
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 925280 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/925280 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 925280 Software RAID fails to rebuild after testing degraded cold boot -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 945786] Re: mdadm refuses to re-add failed member

2012-03-03 Thread iMac
** Description changed: - I have my /home in a RAID1 configuration (/dev/md1) with a partition on - my laptop and a second on an external disk connected via eSATA; A third - sits on a third external disk.I booted up with one member degraded - (external drive not plugged in) and prior to

[Bug 945786] Re: mdadm refuses to re-add failed member

2012-03-03 Thread iMac
Still weird on reboot. mdstat seems fine, but the failed member still thinks it is active. :~# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] md1 : active raid1 sdb3[0] 86003840 blocks [3/1] [U__] unused devices: none :~#

[Bug 945786] Re: mdadm refuses to re-add failed member

2012-03-03 Thread iMac
The disk was /dev/sdc in the first instance because it was plugged after cd-rom took /dev/sdb. In the second instance it was left plugged in on boot, taking /dev/sdb and leaving /dev/sdc for the cd-rom. Subsequent reboots with both disks plugged in, and removing my mdadm udev override (removed

[Bug 945786] Re: mdadm refuses to re-add failed member

2012-03-03 Thread Jools Wills
It suggested you remove the old meta data from the disk to re-add but I didn't see that you did that. do that and then try and add it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/945786 Title:

[Bug 945786] Re: mdadm refuses to re-add failed member

2012-03-03 Thread iMac
Thanks, the --zero-superblock on the device I want to re-add worked. I think I understand what happened, possibly as a result of some mdadm improvements. A verbose explanation follows. The complexity I did not share, is that my three-disk RAID1 array is actually between two laptops, each which