On Friday September 26, thomas62186218@xxxxxxx wrote: > Hi All, > > I created an md device as follows: > > mdadm -C -f -e 1.0 -R /dev/md0 -l 0 -n 2 -c 32 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdg1 > > It was successful and started. > > I then want to delete this md device and did as follows: > > mdadm -S /dev/md0 > mdadm /dev/md0 -r > mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sdc1 > mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sdg1 > > I did not receive any errors. Afterwards, md0 was no longer visible in > /proc/mdstat. > > However, there is still /sys/block/md0 entry, as well as an /dev/md0 > entry. I would have expected these to be gone. > > Is my md0 not getting fully deleted? The array is completely gone. That fact that you can still see /sys/block/md0 is an implementation artifact. It is very difficult to make it go away in a race-free way, and there is little cost is leaving it there. 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
