On Friday 29 April 2005 02:38 am, Guy wrote: > > > > what is the meaning of spares=1? > > When you add a disk it is a spare. i see. So it is important information but not intended for mdadm.conf.... indeed when the rsync completed it no longer said spares=1 in mdadm --detail --scan so i left it out of the mdadm.conf for the next time and it worked. thanks, Mitchell - 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