Bug#396582: Some additional info
martin f krafft
madduck at debian.org
Thu Nov 2 09:28:59 CET 2006
also sprach Dan Pascu <dan at ag-projects.com> [2006.11.01.2323 +0100]:
> Also I've noticed something weird in the test you did. After failing sde1
> from md99 and stopping the array, when it was started with the startup
> script it said it assembled md99 with 2 drives. The same was said by
> mdadm --assemble later, as if between stopping and starting it the failed
> drive was magically re-added. The message should have been something
> like "starting degraded array with 1 drive (out of 2)" if I'm not
> mistaken.
No, because the drives were only marked as failed but not yet
removed. On reassembly, they just get added again.
Are you seeing different behaviour?
> Personalities : [raid1]
> md1 : active raid1 sdb2[1] sda2[0]
> 231609024 blocks [2/2] [UU]
> bitmap: 5/221 pages [20KB], 512KB chunk
>
> md0 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0]
> 12586816 blocks [2/2] [UU]
> bitmap: 12/193 pages [48KB], 32KB chunk
You are using bitmaps, I am not. Maybe that's the cause?
Could you please recreate the problem from scratch and show me *all*
steps?
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