Hopefully someone can help me with this. I have a 7 drive raid10 array. A single drive failed this night and the 7th spare drive was trying to pickup the failed drive. During the re-sync a second drive failed and the re-sync stopped. Now I know I should replace the failed drives but I would like to have them online one more time for some critical files that were produced last night. As it stands I tried: remove from array and re-add: This failed with: mdadm: --re-add for /dev/sdd1 to /dev/md1 is not possible I tried forced reassemble: this failed: mdadm: failed to add /dev/sde1 to /dev/md1: Device or resource busy mdadm: failed to add /dev/sdj1 to /dev/md1: Device or resource busy mdadm: failed to RUN_ARRAY /dev/md1: Input/output error >From what I read online I should re-create the array with assume-clean, but I am quite hesitant to do so since a single type means the destruction of my raid array. Could someone please advice? Added is the output from --examine and --detail /dev/md1: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Thu Apr 26 11:33:56 2012 Raid Level : raid10 Used Dev Size : -1 Raid Devices : 6 Total Devices : 6 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Tue Sep 24 13:52:16 2013 State : active, degraded, Not Started Active Devices : 4 Working Devices : 6 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 2 Layout : far=2 Chunk Size : 64K Name : phobos:0 (local to host phobos) UUID : d2d84ef9:7981fe2b:2140e1cb:1ec86f38 Events : 6298 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 8 8 81 0 active sync /dev/sdf1 7 8 129 1 active sync /dev/sdi1 2 8 113 2 active sync /dev/sdh1 3 0 0 3 removed 4 0 0 4 removed 6 8 97 5 active sync /dev/sdg1 9 8 33 - spare /dev/sdc1 10 8 49 - spare /dev/sdd1 /dev/sdc1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : d2d84ef9:7981fe2b:2140e1cb:1ec86f38 Name : phobos:0 (local to host phobos) Creation Time : Thu Apr 26 11:33:56 2012 Raid Level : raid10 Raid Devices : 6 Avail Dev Size : 5860526080 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Array Size : 8790788352 (8383.55 GiB 9001.77 GB) Used Dev Size : 5860525568 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Data Offset : 4096 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 3b46e91f:bd2a3481:f1818a46:19e77284 Update Time : Tue Sep 24 13:52:16 2013 Checksum : 2d4b1c52 - correct Events : 0 Layout : far=2 Chunk Size : 64K Device Role : spare Array State : AAA..A ('A' == active, '.' == missing) /dev/sdd1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : d2d84ef9:7981fe2b:2140e1cb:1ec86f38 Name : phobos:0 (local to host phobos) Creation Time : Thu Apr 26 11:33:56 2012 Raid Level : raid10 Raid Devices : 6 Avail Dev Size : 5860526080 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Array Size : 8790788352 (8383.55 GiB 9001.77 GB) Used Dev Size : 5860525568 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 0be3d9d6:376a68fe:ef7df0e5:9b369dea Update Time : Tue Sep 24 13:52:16 2013 Checksum : 67003c20 - correct Events : 0 Layout : far=2 Chunk Size : 64K Device Role : spare Array State : AAA..A ('A' == active, '.' == missing) /dev/sde1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : d2d84ef9:7981fe2b:2140e1cb:1ec86f38 Name : phobos:0 (local to host phobos) Creation Time : Thu Apr 26 11:33:56 2012 Raid Level : raid10 Raid Devices : 6 Avail Dev Size : 5860526080 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Array Size : 8790788352 (8383.55 GiB 9001.77 GB) Used Dev Size : 5860525568 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 21d32b5b:4817285e:928eb39d:f9c7090b Update Time : Tue Sep 24 13:52:16 2013 Checksum : 23417b46 - correct Events : 0 Layout : far=2 Chunk Size : 64K Device Role : spare Array State : AAA..A ('A' == active, '.' == missing) /dev/sdf1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : d2d84ef9:7981fe2b:2140e1cb:1ec86f38 Name : phobos:0 (local to host phobos) Creation Time : Thu Apr 26 11:33:56 2012 Raid Level : raid10 Raid Devices : 6 Avail Dev Size : 5860526080 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Array Size : 8790788352 (8383.55 GiB 9001.77 GB) Used Dev Size : 5860525568 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : a300c489:7a42f41a:2cbf23eb:1db87ae8 Update Time : Tue Sep 24 13:52:16 2013 Checksum : 39870d51 - correct Events : 6298 Layout : far=2 Chunk Size : 64K Device Role : Active device 0 Array State : AAA..A ('A' == active, '.' == missing) /dev/sdg1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : d2d84ef9:7981fe2b:2140e1cb:1ec86f38 Name : phobos:0 (local to host phobos) Creation Time : Thu Apr 26 11:33:56 2012 Raid Level : raid10 Raid Devices : 6 Avail Dev Size : 5860526991 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Array Size : 8790788352 (8383.55 GiB 9001.77 GB) Used Dev Size : 5860525568 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : a9cd4f3b:c562c203:3b2c6d3a:2df429bd Update Time : Tue Sep 24 13:52:16 2013 Checksum : f7d9a74b - correct Events : 6298 Layout : far=2 Chunk Size : 64K Device Role : Active device 5 Array State : AAA..A ('A' == active, '.' == missing) /dev/sdh1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : d2d84ef9:7981fe2b:2140e1cb:1ec86f38 Name : phobos:0 (local to host phobos) Creation Time : Thu Apr 26 11:33:56 2012 Raid Level : raid10 Raid Devices : 6 Avail Dev Size : 5860526080 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Array Size : 8790788352 (8383.55 GiB 9001.77 GB) Used Dev Size : 5860525568 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : b2439c7e:6e1048b9:87da7045:3c2d5249 Update Time : Tue Sep 24 13:52:16 2013 Checksum : 87d7aec6 - correct Events : 6298 Layout : far=2 Chunk Size : 64K Device Role : Active device 2 Array State : AAA..A ('A' == active, '.' == missing) /dev/sdi1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : d2d84ef9:7981fe2b:2140e1cb:1ec86f38 Name : phobos:0 (local to host phobos) Creation Time : Thu Apr 26 11:33:56 2012 Raid Level : raid10 Raid Devices : 6 Avail Dev Size : 5860526080 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Array Size : 8790788352 (8383.55 GiB 9001.77 GB) Used Dev Size : 5860525568 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Data Offset : 4096 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : cc3485c3:08acfa6b:25c11841:f80e07b7 Update Time : Tue Sep 24 13:52:16 2013 Checksum : e8d00bd9 - correct Events : 6298 Layout : far=2 Chunk Size : 64K Device Role : Active device 1 Array State : AAA..A ('A' == active, '.' == missing) /dev/sdj1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : d2d84ef9:7981fe2b:2140e1cb:1ec86f38 Name : phobos:0 (local to host phobos) Creation Time : Thu Apr 26 11:33:56 2012 Raid Level : raid10 Raid Devices : 6 Avail Dev Size : 5860526080 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Array Size : 8790788352 (8383.55 GiB 9001.77 GB) Used Dev Size : 5860525568 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 2e8d438b:16ad5bb7:6e2dafcd:804b37ce Update Time : Tue Sep 24 13:52:16 2013 Checksum : 9fb6061d - correct Events : 6298 Layout : far=2 Chunk Size : 64K Device Role : spare Array State : AAA..A ('A' == active, '.' == missing) -- 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