Re: How to force a spare drive to take over in a RAID5?

2 messages, 2 authors, 2005-08-11 · open the first message on its own page

Re: How to force a spare drive to take over in a RAID5?

From: Neil Brown <hidden>
Date: 2005-08-11 10:11:21

On Tuesday August 9, mcuss@cdlsystems.com wrote:
Hmm - Okay.  If I do that, I get "/dev/sdr1 does not appear to be an md 
device".  If I add --force with this it doesn't seem to matter.
...
From: "Mike Tran" <redacted>
To: <redacted>
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: How to force a spare drive to take over in a RAID5?

quoted
You're on the right track :) mdadm --fail /dev/sdr should do.
Ofcourse, What Mike meant was 
  mdadm /dev/md4 --fail /dev/sdr

NeilBrown

Re: How to force a spare drive to take over in a RAID5?

From: Mark Cuss <hidden>
Date: 2005-08-11 16:03:45

Oh jeez how obvious - I guess I should've RTFM'd with a little more 
attention to detail - sorry 'bout the extremely obvious question!

Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Neil Brown" <redacted>
To: "Mark Cuss" <redacted>
Cc: <redacted>
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 4:11 AM
Subject: Re: How to force a spare drive to take over in a RAID5?

On Tuesday August 9, mcuss@cdlsystems.com wrote:
quoted
Hmm - Okay.  If I do that, I get "/dev/sdr1 does not appear to be an md
device".  If I add --force with this it doesn't seem to matter.
...
quoted
From: "Mike Tran" <redacted>
To: <redacted>
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: How to force a spare drive to take over in a RAID5?

quoted
You're on the right track :) mdadm --fail /dev/sdr should do.
Ofcourse, What Mike meant was
 mdadm /dev/md4 --fail /dev/sdr

NeilBrown

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