NeilBrown wrote: : > I have tried mdadm --add /dev/mdN /dev/sd.. /dev/sd.. /dev/sd.., : > but it behaves the same way as issuing mdadm --add one drive at a time. : : I would expect that to first recover just the first device added, then : recover all the rest at once. : : If you: : echo frozen > /sys/block/mdN/md/sync_action : mdadm --add /dev/mdN /dev...... : echo recover > /sys/block/mdN/md/sync_action : : it should do them all at once. Wow, it works! Thanks! : I should teach mdadm about this.. It would be nice if mdadm --add /dev/mdN <multiple devices> did this. -Yenya -- | Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak <kas at {fi.muni.cz - work | yenya.net - private}> | | GPG: ID 1024/D3498839 Fingerprint 0D99A7FB206605D7 8B35FCDE05B18A5E | | http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kas/ Journal: http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kas/blog/ | Please don't top post and in particular don't attach entire digests to your mail or we'll all soon be using bittorrent to read the list. --Alan Cox -- 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