Hi Neil, Thank you for your advice, I tried 3.2.3, it still failed. Regards, Johnson Yan -----Original Message----- From: NeilBrown [mailto:neilb@xxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 10:20 AM To: Johnson Yan Cc: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: mdadm v3.1.3 spare group does not work On Tue, 8 May 2012 09:57:57 +0800 "Johnson Yan" <johnson_yan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > When I use mdadm v3.1.3, seems the spare group function can’t work. As > I remember, this function in mdadm 2.6.5 works well. Can you try mdadm 3.2.3 please (or is that what you meant?). Better still, try the current git version: git clone git://github.com/neilbrown/mdadm cd mdadm make make install Thanks, NeilBrown > > > Here is some info from /etc/mdadm.conf … ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 > spare-group=test11 ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid1 spare-group=test11 … > > > And mdmonitor service is in running status: > [root@localhost tmp]# ps aux |grep mdadm root 1794 0.0 0.0 > 6852 760 ? Ss 16:52 0:00 mdadm -F -y -f -s -i > /var/run/mdadm/mdadm.pid --delay=10 > > There is one spare disk in md0, and no spare in md1, if I fail the > member disk in md1, the spare in md0 won’t migrate into md1. > > Thank you very much. > > Regards, > Johnson Yan > > -- > 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 -- 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