From: Phil Turmel <philip@turmel.org>
To: Guillaume Paumier <guillaume.paumier@gmail.com>,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Offline array, events count mismatch
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2015 22:35:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56401471.2040605@turmel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1903758.3ih4aa4jR2@carbon.lepommierdujardin.fr>
Hi Guillaume,
On 11/08/2015 09:49 PM, Guillaume Paumier wrote:
[trim /]
> Looking at those event counts, my understanding is this:
> * Two of the disks (sde, sdf) were dropped from the array for some reason.
> * I didn't notice this immediately (an issue I'm addressing separately).
> * A third disk (sdj) encountered a small issue today.
> * The array went offline because it didn't have enough disks to function
> cleanly any more.
>
> If I understand the documentation [1] correctly, since the event count for sdj
> is very close to the event count of sd[b,c,d,g,h,i], I should be able to re-
> assemble the array with these 7 disks using --force, leaving sde and sdf
> aside. Once the array is assembled, I should be able to re-add sde and sdf,
> and they will be re-sync'd.
Yes, that is the correct response.
Your situation is common. Please see the thread this weekend started by
Franscisco Parada.
https://marc.info/?t=144691643300001&r=1&w=2&n=12
You should provide "smartctl -i -A -l scterc /dev/sdX" reports for your
drives. If you can find an old syslog for when your two worst drives
fell out, it might help.
Phil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-09 3:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-09 2:49 Offline array, events count mismatch Guillaume Paumier
2015-11-09 3:35 ` Phil Turmel [this message]
2015-11-10 3:05 ` Guillaume Paumier
2015-11-10 15:50 ` Phil Turmel
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