From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Erik Boettcher" Subject: Re: Raid 5 Recovery Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 13:13:15 -0500 Message-ID: <125ed8800812281013t59a3dc8cte44091d262cb8905@mail.gmail.com> References: <125ed8800812272221y44e77849l886a80f32cbcfbec@mail.gmail.com> <3513de790812280753k5c46799cj92a0e9566227fadc@mail.gmail.com> <125ed8800812281002t6eecb5cbu2173efab36418c92@mail.gmail.com> <125ed8800812281004o4d179064r735e46315481775a@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <125ed8800812281004o4d179064r735e46315481775a@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Erik Boettcher Date: Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 1:04 PM Subject: Re: Raid 5 Recovery To: Dylan Distasio On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Erik Boettcher wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Dylan Distasio wrote: >> Have you tried assembling the array degraded to see if you can force >> it without sdd3? I don't know if this is the best solution, but if >> that works, you can then readd sdd3 and have the array rebuild. > > I tried forcing the assembly without sdd3, and it complains about sde3! > > I find it interesting that before the first command sdc3 failed but > now it's not the fault point.... > I guess I should specify how it complains: the exact same error message but sde3 instead. mack ~ # mdadm -A --force --no-degraded /dev/md0 /dev/sd{a,b,c,e}3 mdadm: superblock on /dev/sde3 doesn't match others - assembly aborted eek, and I tried with the first 3 hdds and got this: mack ~ # mdadm -A --force --no-degraded /dev/md0 /dev/sd{a,b,c}3 mdadm: clearing FAULTY flag for device 2 in /dev/md0 for /dev/sdc3 mdadm: clearing FAULTY flag for device 1 in /dev/md0 for /dev/sdb3 mdadm: clearing FAULTY flag for device 0 in /dev/md0 for /dev/sda3 mdadm: failed to add /dev/sdb3 to /dev/md0: Invalid argument mdadm: failed to add /dev/sda3 to /dev/md0: Invalid argument mdadm: failed to add /dev/sdc3 to /dev/md0: Invalid argument mdadm: /dev/md0 assembled from 0 drives (out of 5), but not started.