Re: mdadm doing strange things

[Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>]

Alan Chandler put forth on 6/19/2010 1:20 PM:
> 
> I have a server with a pair of raided (RAID1) disks using partition 1,2
> and 4 as /boot root and and and lvm volume respectively.  The two disks
> are /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.  They have just replaced two smaller disks
> where the root partiton was NOT a raid device - it was just /dev/sda2
> although there was a raided boot partition in the first partition.
> Hardware only supports 2 sata channels.
> 
> I wanted to revert to root partition to the same state as one I just
> took out, so I failed and removed sdb

_why_?  This doesn't make any sense.

-- 
Stan