> From: NeilBrown [mailto:neilb@xxxxxxxx] > Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2017 2:35 PM > Subject: Re: mismatch_cnt > 0 during initial sync? > > > From the perspective of md, the initial sync is no different from any other sync. It > will count the number of mismatches that it finds and fixes. > Should a sync always fix a mismatch it encounters? I have a RAID1 with 3 disks. Sometimes I need to replace one disk and after adding a replacement disk syslog indicates "RebuildFinished event detected on md device /dev/md/2, component device mismatches found: 256 (on raid level 1)" but says nothing about fixing it. cat /sys/block/md2/md/last_sync_action recovery mdadm -V mdadm - v3.3 - 3rd September 2013 Thank you, Pete -- 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