NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 10:03:16 -0400 micah <micah@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> writes: >> >> > On Mon, 27 Oct 2014 10:18:47 -0400 micah anderson <micah@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> i've got a raid1 setup, where one drive died, it was replaced with a new >> >> one, but its stuck in a (S) state and I can't seem to get it added into >> >> the array, /proc/mdstat looks like this: >> >> >> >> md3 : active raid1 sdc1[2](S) sdd1[1] >> >> 976759672 blocks super 1.2 [2/1] [_U] >> >> >> >> where sdc1 is the replaced drive. >> >> >> >> What is the right way to get this added back? >> >> >> > >> > I've a feeling this bug might have been fixed. >> > What versions of mdadm and Linux are you using? >> >> I'm using squeeze here, and had 3.1.4-1+8efb9d1+squeeze1 installed, I >> just installed the backport, which is 3.2.5-3~bpo60+1. > > Is assume that is the version of mdadm. You didn't say what version of Linux. Yes, that is the version of mdadm. I am running squeeze, which is a 2.6.32-5 version of the kernel, and it is an amd64 machine. >> > Are there any errors in the kernel logs when you --add the device? > > You didn't answer this question either. Are there any messages in the > kernel log: /var/log/kern.log on debian. > Or in the output of "dmesg". The only thing I see in the log is: [307932.328420] mdadm: sending ioctl 1261 to a partition! [307932.328425] mdadm: sending ioctl 1261 to a partition! [307932.346642] mdadm: sending ioctl 1261 to a partition! [307932.346648] mdadm: sending ioctl 1261 to a partition! [307932.352466] mdadm: sending ioctl 1261 to a partition! [307932.352468] mdadm: sending ioctl 1261 to a partition! [307932.376821] mdadm: sending ioctl 1261 to a partition! [307932.376824] mdadm: sending ioctl 1261 to a partition! [307932.377623] mdadm: sending ioctl 1261 to a partition! [307932.377630] mdadm: sending ioctl 1261 to a partition! [307932.467292] md: bind<sdc1> [307932.588154] RAID1 conf printout: [307932.588159] --- wd:1 rd:2 [307932.588164] disk 0, wo:1, o:1, dev:sdc1 [307932.588167] disk 1, wo:0, o:1, dev:sdd1 [307932.588248] md: recovery of RAID array md3 [307932.588251] md: minimum _guaranteed_ speed: 50000 KB/sec/disk. [307932.588254] md: using maximum available idle IO bandwidth (but not more than 2000000 KB/sec) for recovery. [307932.588260] md: using 128k window, over a total of 976759672 blocks. but this is just when the device is added, after that it appears that logrotation failed and I have a zero byte kern.log, and firewall spew has filled up my dmesg ring. >> Can I just zero the superblock of that device and re-add it in order to >> resolve this? > > > If it resyncs and the is still spare, there was almost certainly some sort of > failure. There really must be something in the kernel logs at that time. It did resync, and is still a spare.... Now that I've fixed the logs, I'm going to try it again to see if there is any error that happens after the sync finishes. micah -- 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