Re: dm-crypt over raid6 unreadable after crash

[Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>]

On 7/11/2011 2:57 AM, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 06:44:21PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>>
>> Moral of this story:  Using live CDs to troubleshoot Linux RAID arrays,
>> LVM volumes, dmcrypt, etc, is tricky at best, fraught with disaster at
>> worst.  Always have a "system rescue" CD/DVD built from the particular
>> machine in question at the ready.  Most distros have a facility for
>> building such a per machine boot/rescue CD.  Such media will have the
>> same kernel and module versions, the system's mdadm configuration, and
>> all other system specific stuff needed to properly troubleshoot and repair.
>>
>> If such rescue media had been used the OP would have likely experienced
>> far less grief, and might already had this problem fixed.
> 
> A live CD like grml can properly auto-start a md array. My problem
> came from doing a --create instead of an --assemble at some point.

What did it not auto-start your md array in this case again?

-- 
Stan