On Fri, May 15, 2009 12:15 pm, Leslie Rhorer wrote: > > OK, I've torn down the LVM backup arraqy and am rebuilding it as a RAID 5. > I've had problems with this before, and I'm having them, again. I created > the array with: > > mdadm --create /dev/md0 --raid-devices=7 --metadata=1.2 --chunk=256 > --level=5 /dev/sd[a-g] > > whereupon it creates the array and then immediately removes /dev/sdg and > makes it a spare. I think I may have read where this is normal behavior. Correct. Maybe you read it in the mdadm man page. > I can't get it to do an initial resync or promote the spare, however. So it doesn't start recovery straight away? That is odd... Maybe it is in read-auto mode. I should probably get mdadm to poke it out of that. If it is just start creating the filesystem or whatever you want to do, that will prod it into action. If not (check /proc/mdstat), what kernel log messages are them from the time when you created the array. 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
