On Monday December 17, erich.newell@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > My system has crashed a couple of times, each time the two drives have > dropped off of the RAID. > > Previously I simply did the following, which would take all night: > > mdadm -a --re-add /dev/md2 /dev/sde3 > mdadm -a --re-add /dev/md2 /dev/sdf3 > mdadm -a --re-add /dev/md3 /dev/sde5 > mdadm -a --re-add /dev/md3 /dev/sde5 > > When I woke up in the morning, everything was happy...until it crashed > again yesterday. This time, I get a message: "/dev/md3 assembled from > 4 drives - not enough to start the array while not clean - consider > --force." > > I can re-assemble /dev/md3 (sda5, sdb5, sdc5, sdd5, sde5 and sdf5) if > I use -f, although all the other sets seem fine. I cannot "--re-add" > the other partitions. What happens when you try to re-add those devices? How about just "--add". --re-add is only need for arrays without metadata, in your case it should behave the same as --add. 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
