Hi Neil, > I cannot find the patch I was thinking of to check when it went in, > but I have just tested various failure scenarios on 2.6.12-rc3-mm3 and > it handles them all properly. > > If you could try 2.6.12 and confirm, I would appreciate it. > Ok, will try with 2.6.12 > I noticed that the raid5 was resyncing rather than recovering. > Normally when you create a raid5 with mdadm it will recover as this is > faster than resync. Did you create the array with '-f' ?? > No, but the '--run' flag was set. I noticed that when ommiting the '--run' flag (like 'mdadm --create /dev/md3 --level=5 --raid-devices=4 /dev/hd[abef]4') the array goes into recovery straight away, so probably the '--run' flag forces a '-f'. It also looks like the '--detail --test' flag of mdadm (to obtain the array status as return value) does not work (always returns 0). I'll start a different thread on that when I tested it further. Cheers, Bart - 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
