Bernd Schubert <Bernd.Schubert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> for one of our raid1 devices 'mdadm -D' reports 3 devices and 1
> failed device, though I'm pretty sure that I specified
> '--raid-devices=2' when I created that raid-array.
[...]
> Raid Devices : 2
You did.
> Total Devices : 3
Plus one spare disk.
> Active Devices : 2
> Working Devices : 2
Two mirrors up and running.
> Failed Devices : 1
> Spare Devices : 0
One disk failed or out-of-sync or something like that.
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> One another system, 'mdadm -D' reports the correct numbers.
What do you expect as 'correct'?
Did you move *all* the physical disks of the one
system to the other?
Did you also move your mdadm.conf (if you didn't
move the disk with the root-fs), if there is one?
> The data from /proc/mdstat report the correct numbers.
> Any ideas whats the reason for this? Is it a bug in mdadm or has the
> superblock really wrong data?
Well, perhaps there is any partition somewhere else
on your disks with the same UUID, which gets merged
to md0 as spare disk: Did you remove a mirror from
md0 in the past and add another one?
Another chance could be you are using mdadm's 'spare
groups'. I don't know, what mdadm does show in this
case.
regards,
Mario
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Dietmar Wischmeier
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