Hi,
In my continuing goal to remove the bad blocks log from any of my
arrays and not have one on any new arrays I create, I wrote this
article:
https://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2020/09/13/debian-installer-mdadm-configuration-and-the-bad-blocks-controversy
Shortly afterwards someone on Hacker News¹ said that it is possible
to remove the BBL by failing and re-adding devices, like so:
# mdadm /dev/md127 --fail /dev/sda --remove /dev/sda --re-add /dev/sda --update=no-bbl
I tried that on Ubuntu 18.04:
$ mdadm --version
mdadm - v4.1-rc1 - 2018-03-22
$ sudo mdadm --fail /dev/md0 /dev/sdb1 --remove /dev/sdb1 --re-add /dev/sdb1 --update=no-bbl
mdadm: set /dev/sdb1 faulty in /dev/md0
mdadm: hot removed /dev/sdb1 from /dev/md0
mdadm: --re-add for /dev/sdb1 to /dev/md0 is not possible
$ sudo mdadm --add /dev/md0 /dev/sdb1 --update=no-bbl
mdadm: --update in Manage mode only allowed with --re-add.
$ sudo mdadm --add /dev/md0 /dev/sdb1
mdadm: added /dev/sdb1
$ sudo mdadm --examine-badblocks /dev/sdb1
Bad-blocks list is empty in /dev/sdb1
I tried it on Debian buster:
$ mdadm --version
mdadm - v4.1 - 2018-10-01
$ sudo mdadm --fail /dev/md6 /dev/sdb1 --remove /dev/sdb1 --re-add /dev/sdb1 --update=no-bbl
mdadm: set /dev/sdb1 faulty in /dev/md6
mdadm: hot removed /dev/sdb1 from /dev/md6
mdadm: --re-add for /dev/sdb1 to /dev/md6 is not possible
So, is that supposed to work and if so, why doesn't it work for me?
In both cases these are simple two device RAID-1 metadata version
1.2 arrays. Neither has bitmaps.
Thanks,
Andy
¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24479235
