On 10/12/07, Andre Noll <maan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10:38, Jon Nelson wrote: > > <4>md: kicking non-fresh sda4 from array! > > > > what does that mean? > > sda4 was not included because the array has been assembled previously > using only sdb4 and sdc4. So the data on sda4 is out of date. I don't understand - over months and months it has always been the three devices, /dev/sd{a,b,c}4. I've added and removed bitmaps and done other things but at the time it rebooted the array had been up, "clean" (non-degraded), and comprised of the three devices for 4-6 weeks. > > I also have this: > > > > raid5: raid level 5 set md0 active with 2 out of 3 devices, algorithm 2 > > RAID5 conf printout: > > --- rd:3 wd:2 fd:1 > > disk 1, o:1, dev:sdb4 > > disk 2, o:1, dev:sdc4 > > This looks normal. The array is up with two working disks. Two of three which, to me, is "abnormal" (ie, the "normal" state is three and it's got two). > > Why was /dev/sda4 kicked? > > Because it was non-fresh ;) OK, but what does that MEAN? > > md0 : active raid5 sda4[3] sdb4[1] sdc4[2] > > 613409664 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/2] [_UU] > > [==>..................] recovery = 13.1% (40423368/306704832) > > finish=68.8min speed=64463K/sec > > Seems like your init scripts re-added sda4. No, I did this by hand. I forgot to say that. -- Jon - 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