From: Phil Turmel <philip@turmel.org>
To: Mike Hartman <mike@hartmanipulation.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAID showing all devices as spares after partial unplug
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 12:18:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E7619CF.6060707@turmel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB=7dh=9cx2sVAAZMhU_fFcDkzUFJS+cR6YLsT-Jjfg=oeZaRQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 09/18/2011 12:07 PM, Mike Hartman wrote:
> Thanks Phil. --assemble --force is all it took - glad I held off. That
> was my first instinct to try, but I was worried it would still leave
> the drives as spare AND somehow mess up the metadata enough that it
> wouldn't be recoverable, so I was afraid to touch it until someone
> could confirm the approach. Seems like a silly reason to have the
> array down for multiple days, but better safe than sorry with that
> much data.
Good to hear! This list's archives have a number of cases where premature use of "--create" pushed a recoverable array over the edge, with resulting grief for the owner. Not that it can't or shouldn't ever be done, but the pitfalls have sharp stakes.
> Thanks again to both you and Jim!
You're welcome.
Phil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-18 16:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <CAB=7dhk0AV1dKL2cngt1eZXJwCVrfixfLE5z=J1i-7tqdL-6QA@mail.gmail.com>
2011-09-17 20:39 ` RAID showing all devices as spares after partial unplug Mike Hartman
2011-09-17 22:16 ` Mike Hartman
[not found] ` <CAB=7dhmFQ=Rtagj2j_22cnoS0A2yoKvJgaTM+ZiqDBqhPRooDQ@mail.g mail.com>
2011-09-18 1:16 ` Jim Schatzman
2011-09-18 1:34 ` Mike Hartman
[not found] ` <CAB=7dh=PymkpqRLTWiNzD-+n=XwEWnPN8nQwXg1=UmiJmZ1b1w@mail.g mail.com>
2011-09-18 2:57 ` Jim Schatzman
2011-09-18 3:07 ` Mike Hartman
[not found] ` <CAB=7dh=9UcEWJjLbOvPLu1Ubij0X4i6+SQ-6L9VE5gHLvcJVcw@mail.gmail.com>
2011-09-18 3:59 ` Mike Hartman
2011-09-18 13:23 ` Phil Turmel
2011-09-18 16:07 ` Mike Hartman
2011-09-18 16:18 ` Phil Turmel [this message]
[not found] ` <20110920010054.8DFFE581F7A@mail.futurelabusa.com>
2011-09-20 4:33 ` Phil Turmel
2011-09-18 23:08 ` NeilBrown
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