Re: debian testing and mdadm

[Alvin Oga <aoga@mail.Linux-Consulting.com>]

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, Adam Olsen wrote:

> Just some more information:
> 
> After boot, during the recovery when I add the second disk, mdadm 
> --examine /dev/sdb2 shows this:
> 
>        Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
> this     0       8       18        0      active sync   /dev/sdb2
> 
>     0     0       8       18        0      active sync   /dev/sdb2
>     1     1       0        0        1      faulty removed
>     2     2       8        2        1      spare   /dev/sda2
> 
> so it appears that it thinks the second device is faulty and that I'm 
> adding /dev/sda2 as a spare.

...
 
> > It seems to be working, cat /proc/mdstat shows:
> > 
> > Personalities : [raid1]
> > md2 : active raid1 sda2[1] sdb2[0]
> >       155308288 blocks [2/2] [UU]

either /proc/mdstat or  mdadm --examine is lying and broken

and you probably want to do the --examine AFTER all the rsyncing is done

c ya
alvin