Christian Kivalo schrieb:
hi everybody!
i found out, that the superblock of my raid5 array says it's built out of 7 disks, but i created it with only 6 disk. the mdadm call used to create the array was:
i'm using mdadm version 0.7.2, i think that is pretty old. i will upgrade to a more recent version and recreate the array.
still i would like to know if i encountered a bug or if thats some other problem. this mdadm version is the one from debian woody (stable).
thanks in advance christian
Yes, that is a bug in the (very old) 0.7.2 of Debian. Additionally, these old versions cannot handle spare devices (after each assemble, you hae to add them manually). Use at least mdadm 1.4.0, better the newest (I believe 1.5.0). You do not need to recreate the array, simply stop it and (re-)assemble it after you have the new mdadm in place - and the bug and the wrong output is gone.
Had the same problem (that with the spare device) with SuSE 8.2 and Debian Woody...
Bye, Norman.
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Norman Schmidt Institut fuer Physikal. u. Theoret. Chemie
Dipl.-Chem. Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet
schmidt@naa.net Erlangen-Nuernberg
IT-Systembetreuer Physikalische Chemie
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