On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 13:25:29 -0500 Phil Turmel <philip@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Fabian, > > I see good news to greet me this morning! > > On 01/05/2014 05:45 AM, Fabian Knorr wrote: > > $ cat /proc/mdstat > > Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] > > md127 : active (auto-read-only) raid5 sde1[6] sdh1[2] sdi1[3] sdb1[4] sdg1[1] sdc1[5] sdf1[0] > > 11721074688 blocks level 5, 1024k chunk, algorithm 2 [7/7] [UUUUUUU] > > resync=PENDING > > Auto-read-only will switch to read-write as soon as you actually write > anything to the array. Which will also kick off the resync. You can also "mdadm --readwrite /dev/md127" to allow resync to continue. > Long term, consider creating a new array with metadata type 1.x so you > can use a bitmap. If you ever have an event like this, where one or > more devices are disconnected then reconnected, it'll greatly shorten > the recovery time. While I would encourage the use for 1.x metadata, you don't strictly need it for a bitmap. 0.90 metadata supports bitmaps too, though it is slightly less flexibly in the granularity of the bitmap (not that you would probably notice). NeilBrown
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