Re: more software raid questions

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fred smith wrote:
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 07:34:19PM -0700, Nataraj wrote:
  
fred smith wrote:helppain/backups/disks/
    
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Well, I've already tried to use --fail and --remove on md125 and md126
but I'm told the members are still active.

mdadm /dev/md126 --fail /dev/sdb1 --remove /dev/sdb1
mdadm /dev/md125 --fail /dev/sdb2 --remove /dev/sdb2

	mdadm /dev/md126 --fail /dev/sdb1 --remove /dev/sdb1
	mdadm: set /dev/sdb1 faulty in /dev/md126
	mdadm: hot remove failed for /dev/sdb1: Device or resource busy

with the intention of then re-adding them to md0 and md1.

so I tried:

mdadm /dev/md0 --fail /dev/sda1 --remove /dev/sda1
and got a similar message. 

at which point I knew I was in over my head.

  
it appears that the devices are mounted - need to umount first??

  
When I create my Raid arrays, I always use the option --bitmap=internal. 
With this option set, a bitmap is used to keep track of which pages on 
the drive are out of date and then you only resync pages which need 
updating instead of recopying the whole drive when this happens. In the 
past I once added a bitmap to an existing raid1 array using something 
like this. This may not be the exact command, but I know it can be done:
mdadm /dev/mdN --bitmap=internal

Adding the bitmap is very worthwhile and saves time and risk of data 
loss by not having to recopy the whole partition.

Nataraj
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