Re: Help with recovering resized raid where machine crashed while PENDING

[Neil Brown]

I probably wouldn't have helped.  It is supposed to write backup
stuff to the spares and if it didn't do that, it probably wouldn't
have written it to a file either.

Right.  Is this a bug or the way it is supposed to work?

The easiest fix for now is to recreate the array.

mdadm -CR /dev/md3 --metadata=0.90 -n3 -l5 -c64 /dev/sdb2 /dev/sdc2
/dev/sdf2 --assume-clean

should do it.

Thank you.  How did you determine which devices to use and which order
to list them in?  I've since rebooted and want to make sure I do not
pick the wrong devices.

Then if that looks good, add the extra devices and grow the array
again.

Will try when md2 is done growing tomorrow. :)

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen