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From: Phil Turmel <philip@turmel.org>
To: "Wesley W. Terpstra" <wesley@terpstra.ca>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel refuses devices mdadm -E accepts
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 13:32:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54BE9F2A.9090102@turmel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54BE9E47.9030706@turmel.org>

Woops!

On 01/20/2015 01:28 PM, Phil Turmel wrote:
> Hi Wesley,
> 
> On 01/19/2015 06:01 PM, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote:
> 
>> I was in the middle of a reshape of this 4-disk raid5 when something
>> rebooted the computer. The system seems otherwise fine, and I suspect
>> someone in the house.
>>
>> What is the correct next step? Should I try --run ? I would obviously
>> prefer not to lose the data on this array. I expect that the reshape
>> was NOT complete, so just recreating the array will probably corrupt
>> its contents.
>>
>> Kernel version 3.17.8 and mdadm version 3.3.2.
> 
> There have been many bug fixes to mdadm since that kernel was retired.
> You should temporarily boot a current liveCD (my favorite is
> systemrescuecd) and do "mdadm -Afv /dev/mdX /dev/sdX ..."

I misread that kernel version.  It's relatively current.  Hmmm.

I'd still try a liveCD with 3.18.x or 3.19.

> Show us the output of that if it doesn't work (it should resume your
> reshape).

This still holds. :-)

Phil


  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-20 18:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-19 23:01 kernel refuses devices mdadm -E accepts Wesley W. Terpstra
2015-01-19 23:52 ` Roger Heflin
2015-01-20 18:28 ` Phil Turmel
2015-01-20 18:32   ` Phil Turmel [this message]
2015-01-20 18:43     ` Wesley W. Terpstra
     [not found]       ` <FCB084A5-816F-4954-971E-1C69C707F213@blub.net>
2015-01-21 12:37         ` Wesley W. Terpstra
2015-01-20 18:32   ` Wesley W. Terpstra

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