On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > >> Spare should mean that it is not currently a synced member of the >> array; in other words a hot-spare. As I recall raid10 cannot >> currently be grown (or /may/ only be grown with VERY recent >> tools+kernels); did you maybe create a single device raid10 and try to >> grow it? > > uhm, well, not really, but almost. > > If I remember correctly, at least one of the arrays > with "spare", was created with missing disk, added > then later. > > BTW, I also notice another array, still RAID-10, > where both the disks have "spare" role... > > Thanks, > > bye, > > -- > > piergiorgio > Ok, please run this for each disk in the array: mdadm --examine /dev/(DEVICE) The output would be most readable if you did each array's devices in order, and you can list them on the same command (- - examine takes multiple inputs) If you still think the situation isn't as I described above, post the results. -- 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
