On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Mirko <mirko76@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> According to the above you removed device 3 not device 7....device 3 >> is missing...device 7 is still there and is a spare. > > Thats right. > >> Put what you though was 7 back > This device no longer exists. What do you mean no longer exists? If so, then you are likely restoring from backups as device 7 failed and device 3 was otherwise was removed and is now no longer viable. You may be able to do add a -f on the mdadm and force it online...typically it will force a previously declared missing/spare device to be re-evaluated and reused if it is good enough or failed for some reasons. > >> ...note that properly determining which >> device is which is pretty difficult unless you have a commercial grade >> wired enclosure from a tier 1 vendor that is actually labeled and >> wired correctly (don't always count on that). > > I thought, every device has its fixed device number in the raid: > > mdadm -E /dev/sd[a-f]1 | grep Role > Device Role : Active device 1 > Device Role : Active device 5 > Device Role : spare > Device Role : Active device 0 > Device Role : Active device 4 > Device Role : Active device 2 > > > -- > 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 -- 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
