On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Jason Lin wrote:
> Hi collist guy:
> I put some data files in /dev/hda8 and leave /dev/hdc8
> empty. After issuing mkraid it doesn't seem to sync
> hdc8 to hda8, which is specified as failed-disk.
>
> After mkraid, I am expecting /dev/hdc8 to have the
> same data as /dev/hda8. Am I missing any assumption?
>
> Thanks.
> Jason
Yes. If you have /dev/hda8 marked as failed, the array will not sync (it
can't), but is already usable.
Instead, you have to copy your data from /dev/hda8 to /dev/md0 (if that is
your array), then prepare the system to boot using /dev/md0 and
reboot. After that, you can raidhotadd the /dev/hda8 back to the array and
it will start the resync.
D.
