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From: "David M. Strang" <dstrang@shellpower.net>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MD or MDADM bug?
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 17:22:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <001c01c5b004$64c902e0$c700a8c0@NCNF5131FTH> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 17176.13548.477061.774536@cse.unsw.edu.au

Neil Brown wrote:
> On Friday September 2, dstrang@shellpower.net wrote:
> >
> > Does this mean I'm going to loose all my data?
> >
>
> No.
> At least, you shouldn't, and doing the --create won't make anything
> worse.
>
> So do the --create with the 'missing', and don't add any spares.
> Do a 'fsck' or whatever to check that everything is OK.
>
> If it isn't, we'll have to look again at exactly what happened and
> figure out which disks we should have created into the array.

-(root@abyss)-(~)- # mdadm -C /dev/md0 -l5 -n28 -c 128 --name=md/md0 -p la 
/dev/sd[a-l] missing /dev/sd[n-z] /dev/sda[ab]
mdadm: invalid number of raid devices: 28

I'm using mdadm 2.0 now --- should I try 2.0-devel-3 ?

-- David 


  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-02 21:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-01 21:26 MD or MDADM bug? David M. Strang
2005-09-02  6:36 ` Claas Hilbrecht
2005-09-02  6:42 ` Claas Hilbrecht
2005-09-02  8:15 ` Neil Brown
2005-09-02  8:33   ` David M. Strang
2005-09-02  8:45     ` Neil Brown
2005-09-02  8:48       ` David M. Strang
2005-09-02  9:34         ` Neil Brown
2005-09-02  9:41           ` David M. Strang
2005-09-02 10:03             ` Neil Brown
2005-09-02 10:08               ` David M. Strang
2005-09-02 11:18                 ` Neil Brown
2005-09-02 21:22                   ` David M. Strang [this message]
2005-09-02 21:49                     ` Neil Brown
2005-09-02 23:34                       ` David M. Strang
2005-09-03  3:52                         ` Neil Brown
2005-09-03  8:21                           ` Tyler
2005-09-04  6:18                             ` Neil Brown
2005-09-05  9:20                               ` danci
2005-09-05  9:35                                 ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
2005-09-05 16:45                               ` Molle Bestefich
2005-09-05 21:13                                 ` Luca Berra
2005-09-06  1:38                                 ` Neil Brown
2005-09-06  6:38                                   ` bart
2005-09-06 10:17                                   ` Molle Bestefich
2005-09-07  2:04                                   ` berk walker

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