On Wednesday November 15, dsung@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Perhaps this is the problem addressed in the 2.6.18.2 patch... But I > thought I'd post it here just in case. > > I was cloning some drives, and ended up creating a 1 drive RAID1 array. > After that was built, I decided to add my spare drive and allow the > reconstruction to take care of things. As soon as I saw that > reconstruction was taking place, I shutdown the system, put the drives > away and closed the case. > > To my surprise, when I booted, I encountered numerous disk errors. > Apparently the system decided to ues the partially reconstructed drive > as the primary! And of course, it had no knowledge that reconstruction > needed to continue. My data was hosed and I had to restart the cloning > process. I've been trying to reproduce this and have failed. Can you give me some more details? Where you using version 1 metadata or the default version 0.90 (though /etc/mdadm.conf can override the default). Were you using a write-intent bitmap? If so, internal or external? If you can come up with an exact sequence of actions to reproduce this I'd really appreciate it, but I don't really expect it. Thanks, NeilBrown - 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
