On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 11:04:51 +0000, David Greaves <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ewan's running 2.4.27 and may have an inconsistency with mdadm counting > the number of raid devices. ... > /dev/md0: > Version : 00.90.00 > Creation Time : Sat Nov 27 07:32:34 2004 > Raid Level : raid5 > Array Size : 735334656 (701.27 GiB 752.98 GB) > Device Size : 245111552 (233.76 GiB 250.99 GB) > Raid Devices : 4 > Total Devices : 5 > Preferred Minor : 0 > Persistence : Superblock is persistent > > Update Time : Sat Nov 27 14:14:24 2004 > State : dirty > Active Devices : 4 > Working Devices : 4 > Failed Devices : 1 > Spare Devices : 0 ... > what does > cat /proc/mdstat > say? As noted above, I'm getting an "interesting" discrepancy between the 4 devices I specified in my create and the results from mdadm. The device seems to be working fine after transferring and playing several files, but I find the "failed devices" bit particularly concerning. Haven't found any way to get mdadm to tell me which device it thinks has failed. As for the command above, I get: Personalities : [raid5] read_ahead 1024 sectors md0 : active raid5 hdd1[3] hdb1[2] sdd1[1] sdc1[0] 735334656 blocks level 5, 128k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] [UUUU] unused devices: <none> Which is what I would have expected. Any ideas? - 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