Hi, I am using lvm in this system, but only for parallel ATA disks, that not use raid system. Anyway I deactivated lvm units, and tried again to readd de faulty drive with the same results: root@Torero-2:~ # mdadm /dev/md0 -a /dev/sdh1 mdadm: Cannot open /dev/sdh1: Device or resource busy Thanks, Paco. > -----Mensaje original----- > De: Jim Radford [mailto:jradford@xxxxxxx] > Enviado el: domingo, 17 de julio de 2005 14:21 > Para: Francisco Zafra > Asunto: Re: Recovery raid5 after sata cable failure. > > Francisco, > > I was having a simuliar issue, and it was due to the fact LVM > was starting before the raid array was assembled, if you are > using LVM you might want to check that the array is assembled > before LVM starts. (Probably would be the same for EVMS also). > > Regards, > Jim > > > On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Francisco Zafra wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I have raid5 array working without problem for some > months. A SATA > > cable failed and de raid5 works fine keeping the superblock > > persistent, but now, I can't get the old device inserted > into the array. > > This is the array just now: > > > > root@Torero-2:/mnt/raid5 # mdadm --detail /dev/md0 > > /dev/md0: > > Version : 00.90.01 > > Creation Time : Tue May 31 19:37:37 2005 > > Raid Level : raid5 > > Array Size : 1367507456 (1304.16 GiB 1400.33 GB) > > Device Size : 195358208 (186.31 GiB 200.05 GB) > > Raid Devices : 8 > > Total Devices : 7 > > Preferred Minor : 0 > > Persistence : Superblock is persistent > > > > Update Time : Sun Jul 17 13:06:17 2005 > > State : clean, degraded > > Active Devices : 7 > > Working Devices : 7 > > Failed Devices : 0 > > Spare Devices : 0 > > > > Layout : left-symmetric > > Chunk Size : 512K > > > > UUID : c4ed8e45:2a036953:92bff479:7cf5bac9 > > Events : 0.162797 > > > > Number Major Minor RaidDevice State > > 0 8 1 0 active sync /dev/sda1 > > 1 8 17 1 active sync /dev/sdb1 > > 2 8 33 2 active sync /dev/sdc1 > > 3 8 49 3 active sync /dev/sdd1 > > 4 8 65 4 active sync /dev/sde1 > > 5 8 81 5 active sync /dev/sdf1 > > 6 8 97 6 active sync /dev/sdg1 > > 7 0 0 - removed > > > > > > And I try to re-add the old disk in this way: > > > > root@Torero-2:/mnt/raid5 # mdadm /dev/md0 -a /dev/sdh1 > > mdadm: Cannot open /dev/sdh1: Device or resource busy > > > > What is wrong? What I am doing bad? Sdh1 is absolutely > unused, so I > > don't understand the error "resource busy" > > > > Thanks, > > > > Paco Zafra. > > > > - > > 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 > > > > -- > ============================================================== > ============ > Jim Radford <jradford@xxxxxxx> > http://www.jimradford.com/ > ============================================================== > ============ > - 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
