On Tuesday November 18, jim@jimtreats.com wrote: > > mdadm -D revealed this > ..... > > 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 : f3be955c:8902d2ea:fb455a5e:8ea38b70 > Events : 0.24 > > It didn't really shout out to me that the spare drive was being used to > restore.. Good point. I will try to put is something like "spare-rebuilding", though it is not actually possible to tell form user-space which spare is being rebuilt. > I did in panic go to the FAQ and follow their advice of > "raidhotadd /dev/mdX /dev/sdX" but this failed as it was already in use as > spare.. > > So could someone point out what to do when my harddrive really does fail... > take out the faulty one.. put a new one in, partition it.. and then add it > with > > mdadm -a /dev/md0 /dev/<harddisk> > > this will add it with spare and is equivelant to raidhotadd so will start > syncing the drive in!? Yes, this is completely correct. NeilBrown - 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
