Create mdadm 5 raid array - after unplug hdd - fail

[ahold]

Welcome,

Today i want create a raid 5 array using mdadm.


I have that array

:~# mdadm --detail /dev/md0
/dev/md0:
        Version : 00.90
  Creation Time : Fri Jun 26 14:40:14 2009
     Raid Level : raid5
     Array Size : 2097024 (2048.22 MiB 2147.35 MB)
  Used Dev Size : 1048512 (1024.11 MiB 1073.68 MB)
   Raid Devices : 3
  Total Devices : 3
Preferred Minor : 0
    Persistence : Superblock is persistent

    Update Time : Fri Jun 26 14:48:56 2009
          State : clean
 Active Devices : 3
Working Devices : 3
 Failed Devices : 0
  Spare Devices : 0

         Layout : left-symmetric
     Chunk Size : 64K

           UUID : h7b682ed:bc4a32e6:bda6ad5b:0d479e64 (local to host lan_beta)
         Events : 0.726

    Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
       0       8       16        0      active sync   /dev/sdb
       1       8       32        1      active sync   /dev/sdc
       2       8       48        2      active sync   /dev/sdd

mounted, working:

df -m
/dev/md0                  2016        18      1896   1% /root/test

Then, i want do a failure test.
Shutdown server, and remove one of 3 HDD.


Boot it up:

mdadm --detail /dev/md0
mdadm: md device /dev/md0 does not appear to be active

 cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] 
md0 : inactive sdc[0](S) sdb[1](S)
      2097024 blocks
       
unused devices: <none>

Do you have any ideas, why my array go fal :/
I read, the RAID 5, should provide security for n-1 disk failure.
But in my case, whole array goes down.


regards

[HROAdmin26]

You need to read more about the md driver. You didn't test your "failure" correctly. A failure doesn't happen when you nicely shut down the machine and pull and drive and then reboot. A failure is when the array is online and one of the drives disappears. When that happens, the volume will still be online.

If the OS is booting and an array member is missing, it will not mount the array by default. You can force it to assemble using mdadm commands.

[ahold]

Thank you for reply,

Maybye you have right, i don't have hot swap interface to test it.

Thank you for explain the problem.

I use you're command to start array

mdadm  --force --run /dev/md0

And everything start working.