The last couple of days I have received a warning about a missing spare for a device that has several spares. A SparesMissing event had been detected on md device /dev/md1. : md1 : active raid6 sdas[12](S) sdx[0] sdaq[11](S) sdau[13](S) sdah[9] sdaf[8] sdae[7] sdad[6] sdac[5] sdab[4] sdaa[3] sdz[2] sdy[1] 31256138752 blocks super 1.2 level 6, 128k chunk, algorithm 2 [10/10] [UUUUUUUUUU] bitmap: 0/2 pages [0KB], 1048576KB chunk I have tried removing one of the spares and adding it again. Same error. $ mdadm --version mdadm - v3.1.4 - 31st August 2010 $ uname -a Linux orsted 3.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 #1 SMP Sat Feb 11 08:41:32 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux /Ole The automated mail: This is an automatically generated mail message from mdadm running on orsted A SparesMissing event had been detected on md device /dev/md1. Faithfully yours, etc. P.S. The /proc/mdstat file currently contains the following: Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid0] md3 : active raid0 md1[0] md2[1] 62512275456 blocks super 1.2 512k chunks md2 : active raid6 sdat[10] sdaj[0] sdao[8] sdag[7] sdap[6] sdan[5] sdai[4] sdam[3] sdal[2] sdak[1] 31256138752 blocks super 1.2 level 6, 128k chunk, algorithm 2 [10/10] [UUUUUUUUUU] bitmap: 0/2 pages [0KB], 1048576KB chunk md1 : active raid6 sdas[12](S) sdx[0] sdaq[11](S) sdau[13](S) sdah[9] sdaf[8] sdae[7] sdad[6] sdac[5] sdab[4] sdaa[3] sdz[2] sdy[1] 31256138752 blocks super 1.2 level 6, 128k chunk, algorithm 2 [10/10] [UUUUUUUUUU] bitmap: 0/2 pages [0KB], 1048576KB chunk md0 : active raid6 sdw[28](S) sdd[25] sdu[19] sdv[22] sdp[26] sds[16] sdr[15] sdq[14] sdo[23] sdn[12] sdm[11] sdl[10] sdk[9] sdj[8] sdi[7] sdh[6] sdc[20] sdf[4] sde[3] sdb[21] sdt[24] 52744776192 blocks super 1.2 level 6, 256k chunk, algorithm 2 [20/20] [UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU] bitmap: 1/2 pages [4KB], 1048576KB chunk unused devices: <none> -- 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