[Neil Brown] > I probably wouldn't have helped. It is supposed to write backup > stuff to the spares and if it didn't do that, it probably wouldn't > have written it to a file either. Right. Is this a bug or the way it is supposed to work? > The easiest fix for now is to recreate the array. > > mdadm -CR /dev/md3 --metadata=0.90 -n3 -l5 -c64 /dev/sdb2 /dev/sdc2 > /dev/sdf2 --assume-clean > > should do it. Thank you. How did you determine which devices to use and which order to list them in? I've since rebooted and want to make sure I do not pick the wrong devices. > Then if that looks good, add the extra devices and grow the array > again. Will try when md2 is done growing tomorrow. :) Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- 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
