From: Andrew Burgess <aab@cichlid.com>
To: LCID Fire <lcid-fire@gmx.net>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Recreate raid 10 array
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:47:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1239274037.23944.3.camel@cichlid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49DD21C6.4060200@gmx.net>
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 00:14 +0200, LCID Fire wrote:
> > Most fscks can be told to run read-only so they won't write to the
> > device and also interactive so they ask before writing so you should be
> > able to avoid recopying. The ext3 journal recovery violates at least one
> > of these IIRC (or used to) so if it's ext3 find an option to tell it to
> > ignore the journal.
> Too late. The journal recovery did complain quite a bit and I didn't
> know better than to have it fix the things it liked to fix.
Sorry to hear that. Actually our advice should have been to assemble the
array read-only, then all manner of fs bugs/features could not write to
it.
If anyone ever implements the --wild-ass-guess/--recreate mdadm option
perhaps that should automatically set read-only?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-09 10:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-06 19:49 Recreate raid 10 array LCID Fire
2009-04-07 6:13 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-08 21:47 ` Bill Davidsen
2009-04-08 21:57 ` Andrew Burgess
2009-04-08 22:13 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-08 22:14 ` LCID Fire
2009-04-09 10:47 ` Andrew Burgess [this message]
2009-04-10 1:41 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-09 22:38 ` Bill Davidsen
2009-04-10 11:01 ` LCID Fire
2009-04-10 14:25 ` LCID Fire
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