Why, in an MD-RAID1 system with a hot spare, the rebuild process does not begin automatically when a RAID leg fails or is removed.
Issue
- When a RAID leg is removed, the rebuild procedure for
MD-RAID1
(software RAID) setup with a hot spare does not begin.
# mdadm -D /dev/md1
/dev/md1:
Version : 1.2
Creation Time : Thu Jul 27 10:50:51 2023
Raid Level : raid1
Array Size : 1046528 (1022.00 MiB 1071.64 MB)
Used Dev Size : 1046528 (1022.00 MiB 1071.64 MB)
Raid Devices : 2
Total Devices : 2
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Update Time : Thu Jul 27 10:55:55 2023
State : clean, degraded
Active Devices : 1
Working Devices : 2
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 1
Consistency Policy : resync
Name : localhost.localdomain:1 (local to host localhost.localdomain)
UUID : 99eb22ed:b105120a:b207b85c:062fa5b4
Events : 60
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
- 0 0 0 removed
2 8 32 1 active sync /dev/sdc
4 8 0 - spare /dev/sda
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- md-raid
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