And mdstat says it's inactive ; while mdadm says it's "active, degraded"... what's happening ????
apollo13 ~ # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid5] md1 : active raid1 hdc7[1] hda7[0] 6248832 blocks [2/2] [UU] md2 : inactive sda1[0] hdb1[4] sdc1[3] sdb1[1] 978615040 blocks md0 : active raid1 hdc6[0] hda6[1] 72292992 blocks [2/2] [UU] unused devices: <none> apollo13 ~ # mdadm --detail /dev/md2 /dev/md2: Version : 00.90.02 Creation Time : Sun Dec 25 17:58:00 2005 Raid Level : raid5 Device Size : 244195904 (232.88 GiB 250.06 GB) Raid Devices : 5 Total Devices : 4 Preferred Minor : 2 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Fri Jan 6 06:57:15 2006 State : active, degraded Active Devices : 4 Working Devices : 4 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K UUID : 55ef57eb:c153dce4:c6f9ac90:e0da3c14 Events : 0.61952 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 1 0 active sync /dev/sda1 1 8 17 1 active sync /dev/sdb1 1829109784 0 0 0 removed 3 8 33 3 active sync /dev/sdc1 4 3 65 4 active sync /dev/hdb1 - 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