Hi Mark, On 12/27/2012 01:48 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: [trim /] > I'd like to check that the following commands would be the recommended > way to get the RAID6 back into a good state. > > /sbin/mdadm /dev/md3 --fail /dev/sdf3 --remove /dev/sdf3 Shouldn't need the above, /dev/sdf3 isn't in the array. > /sbin/mdadm /dev/md3 --add /dev/sdf3 mdadm may whine about the superblock, but should let you proceed. But yes, this is correct. If you had a bitmap on the array, you would have been able to --re-add without a full rebuild. (On newer versions of mdadm, --add implies --re-add if all the conditions are met.) Phil -- 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
