Did raidhotremove the disk first?
Daniel
On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Brian Lavender wrote:
> Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 02:44:27 -0800
> From: Brian Lavender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Linux Raid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Adding extra disk on Raid1?
>
> I have a running Raid1 with the mingo patches on the 2.2.14 kernel. I
> got everything working, so I decided to turn off the machine and remove
> one of the disks. I deleted the contents of the disk one, and then I
> restarted the machine. It successfully started in degraded mode. I am running
> root raid. I then took the removed disk, and I recreated the partitions on it.
> I tried sticking it back in and doing a raidhotadd, but it complains.
>
> everest:~# raidhotadd /dev/md5 /dev/hda5
> trying to hot-add hda5 to md5 ...
> /dev/md5: can not hot-add disk: disk busy!
> everest:~# raidhotadd /dev/md6 /dev/hda6
> trying to hot-add hda6 to md6 ...
> /dev/md6: can not hot-add disk: disk busy!
>
>
> Here is a snippet of the /etc/raidtab.
>
> raiddev /dev/md5
> raid-level 1
> nr-raid-disks 2
> nr-spare-disks 0
> chunk-size 4
> persistent-superblock 1
>
> device /dev/hde5
> raid-disk 0
>
> device /dev/hda5
> raid-disk 1
>
> raiddev /dev/md6
> raid-level 1
> nr-raid-disks 2
> nr-spare-disks 0
> chunk-size 4
> persistent-superblock 1
>
> device /dev/hde6
> raid-disk 0
>
> device /dev/hda6
> raid-disk 1
>
> Section from /var/log/syslog
>
> Mar 19 02:30:06 everest kernel: md6: no spare disk to reconstruct array! --
>continuing in degraded mode
> Mar 19 02:30:06 everest kernel: md5: no spare disk to reconstruct array! --
>continuing in degraded mode
>
>
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