From: Sharif Islam <mislam@uiuc.edu>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: recreate superblock? (was Re: mdadm: failed to RUN_ARRAY)
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 14:09:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <416ADA7A.5060802@uiuc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1097502158.5815.62.camel@langvan2.homenetwork>
Mike Tran wrote:
>Hi Sharif,
>
>>From the kernel log, I believe that the raid5 array now has 4 working
>disks out of 6 raid disks. My suggestion is to recreate the array.
>
>Before recreating the MD array, I would suggest that you run mdadm
>--examine /dev/hdxx (i.e. hde1, hdf1 or hdg1) and write down the
>information of the original array setup.
>
>Some of the important Raid5 info are : Raid Devices, Total Devices,
>Preferred Minor (/dev/mdx), Spare Devices, Layout, Chunk Size, order of
>devices.
>
>When you **decide** to use mdadm -C to recreate array, mdadm will ask
>you to confirm on overwriting existing md superblock.
>
>
Thanks for your response. Will it delete the existing the data on the RAID?
-Sharif
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-11 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-09 15:39 mdadm: failed to RUN_ARRAY Sharif Islam
2004-10-09 16:38 ` Sharif Islam
2004-10-11 16:16 ` recreate superblock? (was Re: mdadm: failed to RUN_ARRAY) Sharif Islam
2004-10-11 13:42 ` Mike Tran
2004-10-11 19:09 ` Sharif Islam [this message]
2004-10-11 20:00 ` Worked!! " Sharif Islam
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