On 6/5/20 2:30 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Fri, 2020-06-05 at 13:02 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
You don't need an mdadm.conf file or anything. The mdraid system will
automatically build an array when it sees the drives appear. And if you
are using UUIDs in any mount descriptions, that will automatically work
as well.
That doesn't seem to be what's happening:
1) Starting from a fresh reboot, with the array unmounted but active
according to mdadm, I make it inactive:
# echo inactive > /sys/block/md127/md/array_state
That's not the correct option. From the kernel docs:
When written, doesn’t tear down array, but just stops it
I believe that "clear" would be the right option.
(At this point I can make it active again using "echo active ...")
That shows that you haven't properly stopped it, it's still configured.
2) I now delete the component drives:
# echo 1 > /sys/block/sdd/device/delete
# echo 1 > /sys/block/sde/device/delete
That will make the raid array very unhappy.
It's very possible (indeed likely) that I'm stopping the array in the
wrong way, but I don't see any other way to do it. The mdadm man page
mentions '-A' as the way to start an array, but doesn't talk about how
to stop it, so it could just be leaving out-of-date status information
around and that's what's confusing it.
From the mdadm man page:
-S, --stop
deactivate array, releasing all resources.
You can do "cat /proc/mdadm" to see the current state of things.
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