Hi,
I'm running on Centos 4.3 with the latest kernel so perhaps this is a
'vendor uses old/modified kernel' problem, (kernel is 2.6.9-34.EL) but
anyway here goes:
I have a degraded mirror. The rebuild is proceeding with /dev/hda1
'good' and /dev/hdb1 'syncing'.
I'd like to pull /dev/hdb1 out of the raid and go back to 'degraded'
mode with no resync.
When I run mdadm --manage -f /dev/md1 /dev/hdb2 it only causes the
resync to start again from the beginning, it doesn't actually mark it bad.
The same thing happens if there's a write error to /dev/hdb1 during
resync, instead of failing, it simply restarts the resync.
I imagine the two are related - maybe 'set faulty' simply simulates an
i/o error on the member, but during resync, the behavior is 'retry'.
Is there anything that can be done about this (other than politely ask
vendor for a fix ;-)?
David
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