question mdadm --add failed

samarth

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Hi Folks,

I was able to create a mirror using mdadm with 3 disks.

Then I made one of the disks as offline and the raid mirror went to degraded mode. The disk is marked as removed in the mdadm --detail.

The disk then came back online and the raid mirror continues to be in degraded mode and doesn't recognize that the disk has come back online. Is this normal ?

the mdadm --add also fails stating --re-add failed and a zero-superblock needs to be done on the disk which came back online.

Is this the way mdadm supposed to behave ?

Thanks.
 
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