On Fri, 11 May 2012 12:41:16 -0700 "C.J. Adams-Collier KF7BMP" <cjac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey all, > > I've got an array that seems to have failed while I was re-synchronizing > one of the disks. sde fell out when I moved six disks from one chassis > to another. I re-added it and it was 98.8% done with 300 minutes left > in the process when I went to sleep last night. When I woke up, the > array was in a FAILED state, sdg was marked failed and sde was marked > spare. I removed sdg from the array and re-booted and now the array > won't start. > > Is there a way to re-add sdg back in to slot 5 rather than having it > added as a spare? AFAICT, no writes have been made to sdg or md0 since > I removed it from the array, so it should be pretty close to its active > state. sde must be nearly ready to be added in as an active participant > in the array, too. > > Is there anything I can do to re-build the array at this point? > > Maybe. However I cannot quite intuit the state of the arrays from your description. Could you report the output of "mdadm -E" on each member device please? Thanks, NeilBrown
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