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Goverp
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 Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2018 7:13 pm Post subject: Readding a stale drive to mdadm RAID5 ? |
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While plugging new memory into my box, I inadvertantly disconnected a disk power lead, When it booted, mdadm successfully started the RAID array with 3 out of 4 disks. So I stopped the box, reconnected the cable, and restarted. mdadm didn't like the stale drive, and used only the same 3 disks as before.
IIUC, I just need to restart the machine, and mdadm --add the stale drive back into the array, and wait while mdadm repopulates it.
Please can anyone confirm this? (I do have backups, but I don't think I need them in this case.)
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szatox
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| Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2018 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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You could try mdadm --remove and then --re-add that drive. If you have write intent bitmap, it should only synchronize outdated areas.
Otherwise --remove it from raid, --zero-superblock and then --add it again for a full resync, just in case.
Reboot is not necessary as long as your system can detect that drive and use it. SATA even supports hotplug. |
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Goverp
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Thanks szatox. In the end, | Code: | | mdadm /dev/md127 --re-add /dev/sdb3 |
seems to have done the job in almost no time. Syslog shows
| Code: | Jul 27 07:26:01 acer kernel: md: recovery of RAID array md127
Jul 27 07:26:01 acer kernel: md: md127: recovery done. |
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