i upgraded an old nas device from debian 8 to 9 and started get'n this message what's the dang deal :) i don't have any spares root@nsa320:~# mdadm -D /dev/md4 /dev/md4: Version : 0.90 Creation Time : Tue Mar 5 13:16:13 2013 Raid Level : raid1 Array Size : 1932713920 (1843.18 GiB 1979.10 GB) Used Dev Size : 1932713920 (1843.18 GiB 1979.10 GB) Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 2 Preferred Minor : 4 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Thu Jul 9 06:13:34 2020 State : clean Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 UUID : dc6cc046:ef4012cc:ecea512d:0eb28517 (local to host nsa320) Events : 0.99097 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 20 0 active sync /dev/sdb4 1 8 4 1 active sync /dev/sda4 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 18:20:14 -0500 From: mdadm monitoring <root@localhost.localdomain> To: root@nsa320.grumpy-net Subject: SparesMissing event on /dev/md4:nsa320 This is an automatically generated mail message from mdadm running on nsa320 A SparesMissing event had been detected on md device /dev/md4. Faithfully yours, etc. P.S. The /proc/mdstat file currently contains the following: Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [multipath] md2 : active raid1 sda2[1] sdb2[0] 19573696 blocks [2/2] [UU] md4 : active raid1 sda4[1] sdb4[0] 1932713920 blocks [2/2] [UU] md3 : active raid1 sda3[1] sdb3[0] 975808 blocks [2/2] [UU] unused devices: <none> _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx https://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt