Am 28.06.2012 23:36, schrieb NeilBrown: > On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:25:44 +0200 "Stefan G. Weichinger" > <lists@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> What is the logic behind that? > > As you have guessed, it first recovered one device, then recovered > the second one. But it looks like there are no read errors on the > two good devices, so fear-not. Good to know. >> What does it do exactly when it re-adds the first disk, what in >> the second round? >> >> Should I have added sd[ab]3 in one command? > > Had you done that with a very new mdadm, it would have recovered > both at once. mdadm has to say: - disable recovery for now - here > is one new spare - here is another spare - ok, you can try recovery > now > > otherwise as soon as it gets one spare it will start recovery. Thanks for the explanation. >> To me it also seems that I now have good redundancy again >> already, correct? > > Correct. You have single redundancy and in about 10 hours since > your email you'll have double redundancy. It is still rebuilding, must have been slowed down by some processes using the filesystem at night. But still working. -- 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