Re: Paranoia about DegradedArray
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:43:52 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> On Thursday 30 October 2008, Hendrik Boom wrote: ...
>> > I've had trouble with removing drives if I didn't manually fail them.
>> > Someone who knows the inner workings of mdadm might be able to
>> > provide more information on that.
>>
>> I wonder if /dev/hdc3 still needs to be manually failed. I wonder if
>> it is even possible to fail a removed drive...
>
>
> Try adding it. If it works, then you're okay -- assuming the drive is
> okay. If it doesn't work, you'll get an error message and it won't add
> it.
There have been occasional reboots; presumably the add failed on reboot.
I should perhaps check the system log.
-- hendrik
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