NeilBrown wrote:
: > 	I have tried mdadm --add /dev/mdN /dev/sd.. /dev/sd.. /dev/sd..,
: > but it behaves the same way as issuing mdadm --add one drive at a time.
: 
: I would expect that to first recover just the first device added, then
: recover all the rest at once.
: 
: If you:
:   echo frozen > /sys/block/mdN/md/sync_action
:   mdadm --add /dev/mdN /dev......
:   echo recover > /sys/block/mdN/md/sync_action
: 
: it should do them all at once.

	Wow, it works! Thanks!

: I should teach mdadm about this..

	It would be nice if mdadm --add /dev/mdN <multiple devices>
did this.

-Yenya

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