From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Berra Subject: Re: raid5+ lvm2 disaster Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 15:27:12 +0200 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040716132712.GB18585@percy.comedia.it> References: <40EEFD38.8080805@dobbels.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40EEFD38.8080805@dobbels.com> To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 10:16:56PM +0200, Bernhard Dobbels wrote: >Hi, > >Short history: configured raid5 + lvm2 for data disks. Everything worked >fine. When converting root (system disk) to raid 1, I've lost my system >disks. I did a reinstall (1st time in 4 years) of Debian and compiled a >new kernel 2.6.6. > >Now trying to recover my raid 5 + lvm. When raid 5 was up (in degraded >mode), I could see all my lv's, so I think all data is still ok. > >I had problems with DMA timeout and with the patch mentioned in >http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3040 for pDC20268, which had the same >erors in messages. >I've checked the raid with lsraid and two disks seemed ok, although, one >was mentioned as spare. >I did a mkraid --really-force /dev/md0 to remake the raid, but after >this, I cannot start it anymore. junk **raid and use mdadm. anyway you don't tell us which fstab you used for doing the mkraid, and how it related to the current status of your drives. L. -- Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it Communication Media & Services S.r.l. /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \