On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:04:32 +0200 Tobias Gunkel <tobias.gunkel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I've got a strange SparesMissing event on one of my raid1 arrays. > mdadm --detail /dev/md2 says all ok, but I get this message by mdadm > monitor every day: > > A SparesMissing event had been detected on md device /dev/md2. This means that /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf says /dev/md2 has more spare devices than it currently has. What is in /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf > This makes me wonder, too: > > root@MCI03:~# mdadm --examine --scan > ARRAY /dev/md0 UUID=304f5f2a:fbc8082b:54307b3d:1949437b > spares=1 > ARRAY /dev/md1 UUID=b263f9c1:5c680152:54307b3d:1949437b > spares=1 > ARRAY /dev/md2 UUID=7aa24776:9d6e8d24:54307b3d:1949437b > spares=2 > > Why spares=2 for md2? It was created during Debian system install with > spares=1. What do you get if you run mdadm --examine --scan --verbose it should add a 'devices=' line which will show you which devices it is counting. 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
