On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 01:40:14PM +0000, Brian Candler wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 01:02:37PM +0000, Robin Hill wrote: > > > 1. The UUUU_ and [22/21] suggests that one disk is bad, but is that true? > > > And if so which one? > > > > > No, that's normal. A RAID5 (or RAID6) array is created in a degraded > > form, then the last disk(s) are recovered (it's the quickest way of > > getting the array ready for use). > > Ah I see. Thank you. The odd thing is, if I make a RAID6 I get [UUUUU] with no underscores? # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] md127 : active raid6 sdy[23](S) sdx[22] sdw[21] sdv[20] sdu[19] sdt[18] sds[17] sdr[16] sdq[15] sdp[14] sdo[13] sdn[12] sdm[11] sdl[10] sdk[9] sdj[8] sdi[7] sdh[6] sdg[5] sdf[4] sde[3] sdd[2] sdc[1] sdb[0] 61532835840 blocks super 1.2 level 6, 512k chunk, algorithm 2 [23/23] [UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU] [>....................] resync = 0.0% (850232/2930135040) finish=1607.7min speed=30365K/sec bitmap: 22/22 pages [88KB], 65536KB chunk unused devices: <none> Regards, Brian. -- 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