Re: ADD_NEW_DISK failed

On Sunday February 23, norman.schmidt@ratnet.stw.uni-erlangen.de wrote:

By the way: This failed-disk approach is not so well documented for 
mdadm, or did I overlook something? Any documentation anywhere?

Fourth paragraph of the "CREATE MODE" section:

       To create a "degraded" array in which some devices are missing,  simply
       give the word missing in place of a device name.  This will cause mdadm
       to leave the corresponding slot in the array empty.   For  a  RAID4  or
       RAID5  array  at most one slot can be missing.  For a RAID1 array, only
       one real device needs to be given.  All of the others can be missing.


If that is not clear, please help me re-phrase it.


NeilBrown