On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 16:06, Juri Haberland wrote: > Jean-Rene Cormier <jean-rene.cormier@cipanb.ca> wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 15:58, Juri Haberland wrote: > > > I use 2.4.22 so I guess this patch is not for me. When I get home > > tonight I'll try to re-add the disk to the array and see what it does. > > If it doesn't work please also post the relevant part of /proc/mdstat. Well I re-added the drive and it marked it as a spare. Here's the output of mdadm --detail /dev/md0: /dev/md0: Version : 00.90.00 Creation Time : Sat Mar 1 22:55:38 2003 Raid Level : raid1 Array Size : 60051456 (57.27 GiB 61.49 GB) Device Size : 60051456 (57.27 GiB 61.49 GB) Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 2 Preferred Minor : 0 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Wed Nov 12 22:33:37 2003 State : dirty, no-errors Active Devices : 1 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 2 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 33 1 0 active sync /dev/hde1 1 0 0 1 faulty removed 2 34 1 2 spare /dev/hdg1 UUID : 97cdd679:0b676ca4:3d889120:566d5967 Events : 0.30 And here's my /proc/mdstat: Personalities : [raid1] [raid5] read_ahead 1024 sectors md0 : active raid1 hdg1[2] hde1[0] 60051456 blocks [2/1] [U_] [=>...................] recovery = 6.9% (4162176/60051456) finish=30.2min speed=30762K/sec unused devices: <none> It seems to be rebuilding but will it stay marked as a spare drive or will it take over the main faulty drive after it's done rebuilding? Thanks Jean-Rene Cormier - 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