> You could get mdadm 1.3.0, add some patches from > http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/patch/applied/ > and try > --assemble --update=summaries > > it should fix these counts for you. hmmm good call. Thanks > Probably. What is the actual message? All of the output attached below: raid5: using function: p5_mmx (2653.200 MB/sec) md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4 Journalled Block Device driver loaded md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. [events: 00000053] [events: 00000053] [events: 00000053] md: autorun ... md: considering sdf1 ... md: adding sdf1 ... md: adding sde1 ... md: adding sdc1 ... md: created md1 md: bind<sdc1,1> md: bind<sde1,2> md: bind<sdf1,3> md: running: <sdf1><sde1><sdc1> md: sdf1's event counter: 00000053 md: sde1's event counter: 00000053 md: sdc1's event counter: 00000053 md1: former device sdb1 is unavailable, removing from array! md1: former device sdd1 is unavailable, removing from array! md1: former device sdg1 is unavailable, removing from array! md1: former device sdh1 is unavailable, removing from array! md1: max total readahead window set to 1536k md1: 6 data-disks, max readahead per data-disk: 256k raid5: device sdf1 operational as raid disk 4 raid5: device sde1 operational as raid disk 3 raid5: device sdc1 operational as raid disk 1 raid5: not enough operational devices for md1 (4/7 failed) RAID5 conf printout: --- rd:7 wd:3 fd:4 disk 0, s:0, o:0, n:0 rd:0 us:1 dev:[dev 00:00] disk 1, s:0, o:1, n:1 rd:1 us:1 dev:sdc1 disk 2, s:0, o:0, n:2 rd:2 us:1 dev:[dev 00:00] disk 3, s:0, o:1, n:3 rd:3 us:1 dev:sde1 disk 4, s:0, o:1, n:4 rd:4 us:1 dev:sdf1 disk 5, s:0, o:0, n:5 rd:5 us:1 dev:[dev 00:00] disk 6, s:0, o:0, n:6 rd:6 us:1 dev:[dev 00:00] raid5: failed to run raid set md1 md: pers->run() failed ... md :do_md_run() returned -22 md: md1 stopped. md: unbind<sdf1,2> md: export_rdev(sdf1) md: unbind<sde1,1> md: export_rdev(sde1) md: unbind<sdc1,0> md: export_rdev(sdc1) md: ... autorun DONE. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Freeing unused kernel memory: 116k freed Adding Swap: 2096472k swap-space (priority -1) EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on sd(8,1), internal journal [events: 00000053] [events: 00000053] [events: 00000053] [events: 00000053] [events: 00000053] [events: 00000053] [events: 00000053] md: autorun ... md: considering sdh1 ... md: adding sdh1 ... md: adding sdg1 ... md: adding sdf1 ... md: adding sde1 ... md: adding sdd1 ... md: adding sdb1 ... md: adding sdc1 ... md: created md1 md: bind<sdc1,1> md: bind<sdb1,2> md: bind<sdd1,3> md: bind<sde1,4> md: bind<sdf1,5> md: bind<sdg1,6> md: bind<sdh1,7> md: running: <sdh1><sdg1><sdf1><sde1><sdd1><sdb1><sdc1> md: sdh1's event counter: 00000053 md: sdg1's event counter: 00000053 md: sdf1's event counter: 00000053 md: sde1's event counter: 00000053 md: sdd1's event counter: 00000053 md: sdb1's event counter: 00000053 md: sdc1's event counter: 00000053 md1: max total readahead window set to 1536k md1: 6 data-disks, max readahead per data-disk: 256k raid5: device sdh1 operational as raid disk 6 raid5: device sdg1 operational as raid disk 5 raid5: device sdf1 operational as raid disk 4 raid5: device sde1 operational as raid disk 3 raid5: device sdd1 operational as raid disk 2 raid5: device sdb1 operational as raid disk 0 raid5: device sdc1 operational as raid disk 1 raid5: allocated 7475kB for md1 raid5: raid level 5 set md1 active with 7 out of 7 devices, algorithm 0 RAID5 conf printout: --- rd:7 wd:7 fd:0 disk 0, s:0, o:1, n:0 rd:0 us:1 dev:sdb1 disk 1, s:0, o:1, n:1 rd:1 us:1 dev:sdc1 disk 2, s:0, o:1, n:2 rd:2 us:1 dev:sdd1 disk 3, s:0, o:1, n:3 rd:3 us:1 dev:sde1 disk 4, s:0, o:1, n:4 rd:4 us:1 dev:sdf1 disk 5, s:0, o:1, n:5 rd:5 us:1 dev:sdg1 disk 6, s:0, o:1, n:6 rd:6 us:1 dev:sdh1 RAID5 conf printout: --- rd:7 wd:7 fd:0 disk 0, s:0, o:1, n:0 rd:0 us:1 dev:sdb1 disk 1, s:0, o:1, n:1 rd:1 us:1 dev:sdc1 disk 2, s:0, o:1, n:2 rd:2 us:1 dev:sdd1 disk 3, s:0, o:1, n:3 rd:3 us:1 dev:sde1 disk 4, s:0, o:1, n:4 rd:4 us:1 dev:sdf1 disk 5, s:0, o:1, n:5 rd:5 us:1 dev:sdg1 disk 6, s:0, o:1, n:6 rd:6 us:1 dev:sdh1 md: updating md1 RAID superblock on device md: sdh1 [events: 00000054]<6>(write) sdh1's sb offset: 71681920 md: sdg1 [events: 00000054]<6>(write) sdg1's sb offset: 71681920 md: sdf1 [events: 00000054]<6>(write) sdf1's sb offset: 71681920 md: sde1 [events: 00000054]<6>(write) sde1's sb offset: 71681920 md: sdd1 [events: 00000054]<6>(write) sdd1's sb offset: 71681920 md: sdb1 [events: 00000054]<6>(write) sdb1's sb offset: 71681920 md: sdc1 [events: 00000054]<6>(write) sdc1's sb offset: 71681920 md: ... autorun DONE. raid5: switching cache buffer size, 4096 --> 1024 raid5: switching cache buffer size, 1024 --> 4096 Thanks -sv - 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