> You get this because sdf1 says: > > Raid Devices : 7 > Total Devices : 7 > > while sda1 (for example) says: > > Raid Devices : 8 > Total Devices : 6 > Preferred Minor : 127 > > Reshape pos'n : 3799296 (3.62 GiB 3.89 GB) > Delta Devices : 1 (7->8) > > mdadm cannot reconcile this difference. > > It appears that sdf1 was never involved in any reshape. > So you need to revert the reshape before trying to include sdf1 into the > array. Clearly you need at least 6 devices that were involved in > the reshape to do this. > I haven't been following closely ... do you have 6 such devices? > > NeilBrown > Correct. Which I thought was sorta the point, but could have completely misunderstood it, sdf was restored from a "faulty" drive that was out before the reshape. Whether I have 6 devices depends on how picky things are. I've got 5 that should be in sync, the 6th not, but it was involved in the reshape. Short version, is I shot myself in the foot on this one. Reshape never got anywhere, but need to try to revert and save what data I can. Cheers, Curt -- 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
