While replacing a failed disk in software RAID, why does it get added as a spare instead of active one?
Issue
- While adding a disk to a raid device it gets added as a spare instead of adding as an active one.
mdadmdoes not resync the data to a new disk added to the raid device.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
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