- 3 RAID 1 devices with each having 2 partitions mirrored together. - Kernel 2.4.20 I tried to remove /dev/hda1 from /dev/md0 by using raidhotgenerateerror and got this: md: trying to remove hda1 from md0 ... md: bug in file md.c, line 2341 md: ********************************** md: * <COMPLETE RAID STATE PRINTOUT> * md: ********************************** md0: <hde1><hda1> array superblock: md: SB: (V:0.90.0) ID:<dafb19f4.cc607c07.b72647b4.6f585c6d> CT:3c18a44b md: L1 S01024000 ND:3 RD:2 md0 LO:0 CS:8192 md: UT:3e01dcb3 ST:0 AD:2 WD:2 FD:1 SD:0 CSUM:f12faea4 E:00000050 D 0: DISK<N:0,hda1(3,1),R:0,S:6> D 1: DISK<N:1,hde1(33,1),R:1,S:6> D 2: DISK<N:2,[dev 00:00](0,0),R:2,S:9> md: THIS: DISK<N:1,hde1(33,1),R:1,S:6> md: rdev hde1: O:hde1, SZ:01024000 F:0 DN:1 <6>md: rdev superblock: md: SB: (V:0.90.0) ID:<dafb19f4.cc607c07.b72647b4.6f585c6d> CT:3c18a44b md: L1 S01024000 ND:3 RD:2 md0 LO:0 CS:8192 md: UT:3e01dcb3 ST:0 AD:2 WD:2 FD:1 SD:0 CSUM:f12fcb99 E:00000050 D 0: DISK<N:0,hda1(3,1),R:0,S:6> D 1: DISK<N:1,hde1(33,1),R:1,S:6> D 2: DISK<N:2,[dev 00:00](0,0),R:2,S:9> md: THIS: DISK<N:1,hde1(33,1),R:1,S:6> md: rdev hda1: O:hda1, SZ:01536064 F:0 DN:0 <6>md: rdev superblock: md: SB: (V:0.90.0) ID:<dafb19f4.cc607c07.b72647b4.6f585c6d> CT:3c18a44b md: L1 S01024000 ND:3 RD:2 md0 LO:0 CS:8192 md: UT:3e01dcb3 ST:0 AD:2 WD:2 FD:1 SD:0 CSUM:f12fcb79 E:00000050 D 0: DISK<N:0,hda1(3,1),R:0,S:6> D 1: DISK<N:1,hde1(33,1),R:1,S:6> D 2: DISK<N:2,[dev 00:00](0,0),R:2,S:9> md: THIS: DISK<N:0,hda1(3,1),R:0,S:6> md1: <hde5><hda5> array superblock: md: SB: (V:0.90.0) ID:<9f552c55.10d01053.7e6a40ae.e9160862> CT:3c18a58a md: L1 S05120000 ND:3 RD:2 md1 LO:0 CS:8192 md: UT:3e01dcb3 ST:0 AD:2 WD:2 FD:1 SD:0 CSUM:3b397b89 E:0000004d D 0: DISK<N:0,hda5(3,5),R:0,S:6> D 1: DISK<N:1,hde5(33,5),R:1,S:6> D 2: DISK<N:2,[dev 00:00](0,0),R:2,S:9> md: THIS: DISK<N:1,hde5(33,5),R:1,S:6> md: rdev hde5: O:hde5, SZ:05120000 F:0 DN:1 <6>md: rdev superblock: md: SB: (V:0.90.0) ID:<9f552c55.10d01053.7e6a40ae.e9160862> CT:3c18a58a md: L1 S05120000 ND:3 RD:2 md1 LO:0 CS:8192 md: UT:3e01dcb3 ST:0 AD:2 WD:2 FD:1 SD:0 CSUM:3b39987e E:0000004d D 0: DISK<N:0,hda5(3,5),R:0,S:6> D 1: DISK<N:1,hde5(33,5),R:1,S:6> D 2: DISK<N:2,[dev 00:00](0,0),R:2,S:9> md: THIS: DISK<N:1,hde5(33,5),R:1,S:6> md: rdev hda5: O:hda5, SZ:05120000 F:0 DN:0 <6>md: rdev superblock: md: SB: (V:0.90.0) ID:<9f552c55.10d01053.7e6a40ae.e9160862> CT:3c18a58a md: L1 S05120000 ND:3 RD:2 md1 LO:0 CS:8192 md: UT:3e01dcb3 ST:0 AD:2 WD:2 FD:1 SD:0 CSUM:3b39985e E:0000004d D 0: DISK<N:0,hda5(3,5),R:0,S:6> D 1: DISK<N:1,hde5(33,5),R:1,S:6> D 2: DISK<N:2,[dev 00:00](0,0),R:2,S:9> md: THIS: DISK<N:0,hda5(3,5),R:0,S:6> md2: <hde6> array superblock: md: SB: (V:0.90.0) ID:<7db46cc6.da202531.4acfe1c3.0a02808b> CT:3c18a596 md: L1 S53760064 ND:2 RD:2 md2 LO:0 CS:8192 md: UT:3e01dcb3 ST:0 AD:1 WD:1 FD:1 SD:0 CSUM:d3211a5a E:0000004b D 0: DISK<N:0,[dev 00:00](0,0),R:0,S:9> D 1: DISK<N:1,hde6(33,6),R:1,S:6> D 2: DISK<N:2,[dev 00:00](0,0),R:2,S:9> md: THIS: DISK<N:1,hde6(33,6),R:1,S:6> md: rdev hde6: O:hde6, SZ:53760064 F:0 DN:1 <6>md: rdev superblock: md: SB: (V:0.90.0) ID:<7db46cc6.da202531.4acfe1c3.0a02808b> CT:3c18a596 md: L1 S53760064 ND:2 RD:2 md2 LO:0 CS:8192 md: UT:3e01dcb3 ST:0 AD:1 WD:1 FD:1 SD:0 CSUM:d32136ef E:0000004b D 0: DISK<N:0,[dev 00:00](0,0),R:0,S:9> D 1: DISK<N:1,hde6(33,6),R:1,S:6> D 2: DISK<N:2,[dev 00:00](0,0),R:2,S:9> md: THIS: DISK<N:1,hde6(33,6),R:1,S:6> md: ********************************** md: cannot remove active disk hda1 from md0 ... md: trying to generate hda1 error in md0 ... md: okay, generating error! ---------- > cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid5] [multipath] read_ahead 1024 sectors md0 : active raid1 hde1[1] hda1[0] 1024000 blocks [2/2] [UU] ... So, it seems hotgenerateeror was not successful. Any ideas? Regards, Jarmo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html