Yes a reboot is needed to correct the problem. Unless you can figure out how to stop the array. Guy -----Original Message----- From: David Greaves [mailto:david@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 1:30 PM To: Guy Cc: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: RAID5 - 2nd drive died whilst waiting for RMA Guy wrote: >NO!!!!! > >Bad plan, but almost correct. >If you "--add" a disk, md would think it is a new disk. And none of the >existing data would be used. The array would not start anyway. But if you >use the instructions below, you should get your array back to normal. > > OK, that's encouraging :) >+ Stop array: >+ "mdadm /dev/md0 -S" > > mdadm: fail to stop array /dev/md0: Device or resource busy Basically they're still mounted and can't unmount 'cos the nfsds are running. Is a reboot the right thing? (back into single user) David - 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
