I’ve been searching high and low the past few days and have been unable to diagnose what this (R) is in my raid1 mdstat output indicates. It seems something is ‘stuck’ somehow as I’m not sure how the array is both clean and degraded at the same time. Some insights are welcome. kernel 4.0.5-300.fc22 (fedora 22) /proc/mdstat md127 : active raid1 sdg1[2](R) sdd1[3] 976630464 blocks super 1.2 [2/1] [U_] bitmap: 8/8 pages [32KB], 65536KB chunk # mdadm -D /dev/md127 ; mdadm -E /dev/sdg1 ; mdadm -E /dev/sdd1 /dev/md127: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Sat Jan 24 10:22:05 2015 Raid Level : raid1 Array Size : 976630464 (931.39 GiB 1000.07 GB) Used Dev Size : 976630464 (931.39 GiB 1000.07 GB) Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 2 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Intent Bitmap : Internal Update Time : Tue Jun 23 14:53:50 2015 State : clean, degraded Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Name : jail-lnx:ssd-array UUID : a6277db4:da27d506:916a2c7a:d144aed6 Events : 9594760 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 2 8 97 0 active sync /dev/sdg1 3 8 49 0 active sync /dev/sdd1 2 0 0 2 removed /dev/sdg1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x11 Array UUID : a6277db4:da27d506:916a2c7a:d144aed6 Name : jail-lnx:ssd-array Creation Time : Sat Jan 24 10:22:05 2015 Raid Level : raid1 Raid Devices : 2 Avail Dev Size : 1953261038 (931.39 GiB 1000.07 GB) Array Size : 976630464 (931.39 GiB 1000.07 GB) Used Dev Size : 1953260928 (931.39 GiB 1000.07 GB) Data Offset : 262144 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=262056 sectors, after=110 sectors State : clean Device UUID : d5fd7437:1fd04c64:a9327851:b22e8008 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Tue Jun 23 14:53:50 2015 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : fa563013 - correct Events : 9594760 Device Role : Replacement device 0 Array State : R. ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sdd1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : a6277db4:da27d506:916a2c7a:d144aed6 Name : jail-lnx:ssd-array Creation Time : Sat Jan 24 10:22:05 2015 Raid Level : raid1 Raid Devices : 2 Avail Dev Size : 1953261038 (931.39 GiB 1000.07 GB) Array Size : 976630464 (931.39 GiB 1000.07 GB) Used Dev Size : 1953260928 (931.39 GiB 1000.07 GB) Data Offset : 262144 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=262056 sectors, after=110 sectors State : clean Device UUID : fa65731c:d8c703be:bbf05cfe:c89740f2 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Tue Jun 23 14:53:50 2015 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : cfb0b70c - correct Events : 9594760 Device Role : Active device 0 Array State : R. ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) -- 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