Setup: kernel 3.2.21 (debian testing), mdadm 3.2.5. I created a RAID1 imsi array on a supermicro server for testing purposes. I'm trying to see what happens if I hot-remove disks, hot-add them, reboot, etc to test the resiliency of this setup. So I removed (by pulling it out) one disk, then simulated adding a blank replacement disk by putting it back in and running mdadm --zero-superblock on it. I re-added it to the container with mdadm /dev/md127 --add /dev/sda.. and now it just sits there. How do I get the RAID1 array (dev/md126) to start using this disk? The manpage says: -a, --add hot-add listed devices. If a device appears to have recently been part of the array (possibly it failed or was removed) the device is re-added as described in the next point. If that fails or the device was never part of the array, the device is added as a hot-spare. If the array is degraded, it will imme‐ diately start to rebuild data onto that spare. However, nothing is happening: root@server3-b05-tpb:~/tmp# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md126 : active raid1 sdb[0] 31457280 blocks super external:/md127/0 [2/1] [_U] md127 : inactive sda[1](S) sdb[0](S) 6306 blocks super external:imsm Thanks, Mike. -- 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