On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:22 +1000, "NeilBrown" <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Ok. I got beaten up for top posting once, and was told to 'keep things > > in order'. Next time, though -- question first, in BOTH the title and > > the body. > > :-) You can't win, can you... Not even checkers with my son ;-) > When you use --examine, it tries to use the name that people might like. > When you use --detail --scan it primarily has access to the names the > kernel > likes, so it used those. Thanks for that. Into my notes ... > > cat /dev/.mdadm/map > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > md126 0.90 19f2b21c:e54f9e1a:be5ad16e:9754ab5e /dev/md/0_0 > > md127 1.2 79fb7ad4:289bfae5:86c535ff:202960f2 /dev/md127 > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > mdadm --detail --scan > > ARRAY /dev/md127 metadata=1.2 name=jeffadm:jeffadm1 > > UUID=d84afb64:e6fa2b64:ff21c975:f9765431 > > ARRAY /dev/md/0_0 metadata=0.90 > > UUID=19f2b21c:e54f9e1a:be5ad16e:9754ab5e > > Yes, that it weird. I don't know how they came to be out of sync. > > mdadm --incremental --rebuild-map > > will fix it.. Ok. This is officially the first time that I'll actually try to fix anything on my 'production' array. I'm reading the manpage -- again! -- and see both the "--incremental" and "--rebuild-map" sections. So I get what they do. WHEN can/should I do it? On my live running array while at runlevel 5? A lower runlevel? From a separate boot disk? jeff -- 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
