On Wednesday July 7, Holger.Kiehl@xxxxxx wrote: > Hello > > I am using mdadm 1.5.0 (kernel is 2.6.7) and noticed that spare-groups do > not work for me in a raid 10 setup. Here my mdadm.conf: > > DEVICE /dev/hda[23567] /dev/hde[23567] > DEVICE /dev/sd[abcdef]1 > DEVICE /dev/md[23456] > ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=ae4df447:33c21025:00e04356:461073a0 > ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=3d426966:8a378a74:d73267fb:9ec0589c > ARRAY /dev/md2 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=4e592020:0cc3ca3a:b983668f:d1595d33 > ARRAY /dev/md3 level=raid1 num-devices=6 UUID=91e415e1:ab17103b:48d20b4a:1201303c spare-group=afdz > ARRAY /dev/md4 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=71a92656:a1ac42c3:34577f43:f85a26ff spare-group=afdz > ARRAY /dev/md5 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=7e51c839:aa48864b:b50bd5a5:267a1f1c spare-group=afdz > ARRAY /dev/md6 level=raid0 num-devices=3 UUID=c404c58a:42aeef9c:36a67c8e:cd229e88 > MAILADDR root > > Additionally mdadm is started in monitor mode with the following command: > > mdadm --monitor /dev/md0 /dev/md1 /dev/md2 /dev/md3 /dev/md4 /dev/md5 Run mdadm as mdadm --monitor --scan instead. Currently information in the config file is ignored if you actually list arrays to monitor. I acknowledge that that doesn't really make sense and will look into changing it, but that is the way it is at the moment. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html