Re: Moron Destroyed RAID6 Array Superblocks

["Aaron C. de Bruyn" <aaron@darkpixel.com>]

Ok--I got moved in to my new place and am back and running on the 'net.
I sat down for a few hours and attempted to write a script to try all
possible combinations of drives...but I have to admit that I'm lost.

I have 8 drives in the array--and I can output every possible
combination of those.  But what the heck would be the logic to output
all combinations of the 8 drives using only 6 at a time?  My head hurts.

-A

On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 08:21 -0700, Andrew Burgess wrote:
> >After reading through the linux-raid archives I have been lead to
> >believe that I can recover my array by doing a --create and listing the
> >7 drives in the exact order I originally created them in.  Is this correct?
> 
> >If so, the kernel upgrade managed to shuffle the drive names around...is
> >there any way I can figure out what order they should be in?
> 
> If you know the old order just boot the old kernel and recreate there
> 
> If you are using kernel rpms, you always want to 'install' new kernels
> and not 'upgrade', that keeps both the old and new kernel available.
> 
> Otherwise, if you pick just 5 for the 7 drives from a raid 6 array
> it seems to me you have 5 factorial combinations = 120. You could write
> a script that tries them all and then tests by trying a read-only mount?
> 
> Good luck. I mashed a 3.5 TB array once by rerunning the lvm
> creation which zeros the first chunk of the resulting device. I was
> used to mdadm not hurting user data when creating. Grrr.
> 
> BTW when you test recreate the array make sure you dont start syncing, thats
> another reason to just use 5 drives.
> 
> HTH
> 
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