On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 08:55:22AM +1030, Kevin Shanahan wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 09:15:17AM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > > On Tuesday December 16, kmshanah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > hermes:~# mdadm -A /dev/md5 /dev/sd[cefghijk]1 > > > mdadm: failed to RUN_ARRAY /dev/md5: Input/output error > > > > Try adding --force to over-ride apparent errors, and --verbose to help > > you see what is happening. > > Hrm, force doesn't seem to help. Here's the verbose output: > > hermes:~# mdadm -A --force --verbose /dev/md5 /dev/sd[cefghijk]1 > mdadm: looking for devices for /dev/md5 > mdadm: /dev/sdc1 is identified as a member of /dev/md5, slot 8. > mdadm: /dev/sde1 is identified as a member of /dev/md5, slot 0. > mdadm: /dev/sdf1 is identified as a member of /dev/md5, slot 1. > mdadm: /dev/sdg1 is identified as a member of /dev/md5, slot 2. > mdadm: /dev/sdh1 is identified as a member of /dev/md5, slot 6. > mdadm: /dev/sdi1 is identified as a member of /dev/md5, slot 5. > mdadm: /dev/sdj1 is identified as a member of /dev/md5, slot 4. > mdadm: /dev/sdk1 is identified as a member of /dev/md5, slot 3. > mdadm: added /dev/sdf1 to /dev/md5 as 1 > mdadm: added /dev/sdg1 to /dev/md5 as 2 > mdadm: added /dev/sdk1 to /dev/md5 as 3 > mdadm: added /dev/sdj1 to /dev/md5 as 4 > mdadm: added /dev/sdi1 to /dev/md5 as 5 > mdadm: added /dev/sdh1 to /dev/md5 as 6 > mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 7 of /dev/md5 > mdadm: added /dev/sdc1 to /dev/md5 as 8 > mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 9 of /dev/md5 > mdadm: added /dev/sde1 to /dev/md5 as 0 > mdadm: failed to RUN_ARRAY /dev/md5: Input/output error Oh, and here's what gets added to dmesg after running that command: md: bind<sdf1> md: bind<sdg1> md: bind<sdk1> md: bind<sdj1> md: bind<sdi1> md: bind<sdh1> md: bind<sdc1> md: bind<sde1> md: md5: raid array is not clean -- starting background reconstruction raid5: device sde1 operational as raid disk 0 raid5: device sdc1 operational as raid disk 8 raid5: device sdh1 operational as raid disk 6 raid5: device sdi1 operational as raid disk 5 raid5: device sdj1 operational as raid disk 4 raid5: device sdk1 operational as raid disk 3 raid5: device sdg1 operational as raid disk 2 raid5: device sdf1 operational as raid disk 1 raid5: cannot start dirty degraded array for md5 RAID5 conf printout: --- rd:10 wd:8 disk 0, o:1, dev:sde1 disk 1, o:1, dev:sdf1 disk 2, o:1, dev:sdg1 disk 3, o:1, dev:sdk1 disk 4, o:1, dev:sdj1 disk 5, o:1, dev:sdi1 disk 6, o:1, dev:sdh1 disk 8, o:1, dev:sdc1 raid5: failed to run raid set md5 md: pers->run() failed ... This is run on Linux 2.6.26.9, mdadm 2.6.7.1 (Debian) Cheers, Kevin. -- 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
