On 11/01/15 23:22, Valentijn Sessink wrote: > Also, I would not have dared to run all these statements on "live" (or > dead, for that matter ;-) disks. I'm no expert either, but looking at the blog, I'm worried he might have trashed the array with almost the first thing he did :-( "add" says it will add a drive as spare if it didn't originally belong to the array. If it adds a spare to a degraded array, the array will immediately start to repair itself. OOPS!!! As it sounds like exactly this could have happened - mdadm didn't recognise the disk as it added it. Just speculating, but unfortunately this seems quite likely :-( Cheers, Wol -- 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
