The re-add will only work if the array has bitmaps. For quick disk hiccups the re-add is nice because instead of 9 hours, often it finishes in only a few minutes assuming the disk has not been out of the array for long. On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 12:08 AM David T-G <davidtg-robot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Wol, et al -- > > ...and then antlists said... > % > % mdadm --re-add? > [snip] > > Thanks! Sure enough, --re-add didn't work, but --add happily got under > way. Only nine hours to go ... :-) > > > Thanks again & HANW > > :-D > -- > David T-G > See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ > See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt >