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From: Mike Tran <mhtran@us.ibm.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Cc: hn75@gmx.d
Subject: Re: recorvery from Raid5 multiple disk failture
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 07:40:18 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1134740418.17084.39.camel@star2.austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200512161345.33159.hn75@gmx.de>

On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 06:45, Hendrik Naumann wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have a Linux-Software-Raid5 consisting of three partitions (hda2,
> hde2 and hdf2). After a failure of hdf I replaced the disk and added
> hdf2 into the raid again. During the resynchronization process hda
> broke down. 
> 
> I am not completely shure how much of the synchronization
> was already done, but I think it was quite at the end, because the 
> gzipped dd-image of hdf2 and hde2 have very similar sizes. 
> 
> mdadm shows hde2 as a active, clean disk within the raid and hdf2 as a
> clean spare disk. In the Software-Raid-Howto it was stated that
> rewriting the superblocks (I suspect hdf2 to clean active) could be a
> possibility to regain some data from the Raid. 
> 
> How is this possible with mdadm? Or is there some other tool for
> manipulation the superblocks?
> 
> Many thanks in advance
> 
> Hendrik Naummann 
> 
> PS. Please add a CC hn75@gmx.de because up to now I am no subscriber 
> to this list.

Since the recovery did not finish, I would do the followings:

mdadm --examine /dev/hde2 to display the raid5 configuration and note
the chunksize, parity layout, disks order,..
Recreate the array using mdadm -C with "missing" keyword
Mount the raid5 array read-only (hope that it will mount :)

--
Mike T.


      reply	other threads:[~2005-12-16 13:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-16 12:45 recorvery from Raid5 multiple disk failture Hendrik Naumann
2005-12-16 13:40 ` Mike Tran [this message]

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