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From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Guy Watkins <linux-raid@watkins-home.com>
Cc: 'linux-raid' <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RAID6 clean?
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 16:59:11 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18019.47167.814394.650255@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: message from Guy Watkins on Monday June 4

On Monday June 4, linux-raid@watkins-home.com wrote:
> I have a RAID6 array.  1 drive is bad and now un-plugged because the system
> hangs waiting on the disk.
> 
> The system won't boot because / is "not clean".  I booted a rescue CD and
> managed to start my arrays using --force.  I tried to stop and start the
> arrays but they still required --force.  I then used "echo repair >
> sync_action" to make the arrays "clean".  I can now stop and start the RAID6
> array without --force.  I can now boot normally with 1 missing disk.
> 
> Is there an easier method?  Some sort of boot option?  This was a real pain
> in the @$$.
> 
> It would be nice if there was an array option to allow an "un-clean" array
> to be started.  An option that would be set in the md superblock.

Documentation/md.txt

search for 'clean' - no luck.
search for 'dirty'

|
|So, to boot with a root filesystem of a dirty degraded raid[56], use
|
|   md-mod.start_dirty_degraded=1
|

NeilBrown


  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-04  6:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706021232040.13184@p34.internal.lan>
2007-06-02 21:26 ` RAID 6 grow problem Iain Rauch
2007-06-02 21:31   ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-02 21:33     ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-02 21:38   ` Neil Brown
2007-06-02 21:55     ` Iain Rauch
2007-06-02 22:07       ` Neil Brown
2007-06-02 22:35         ` Iain Rauch
2007-06-03 23:33           ` Daniel Korstad
2007-06-04  6:47             ` RAID6 clean? Guy Watkins
2007-06-04  6:59               ` Neil Brown [this message]
2007-08-18  5:40                 ` Guy Watkins
2007-06-04 20:29           ` RAID 6 grow problem Bill Davidsen
2007-06-05 17:08             ` Iain Rauch
2007-06-05 19:21               ` Daniel Korstad
2007-06-05 21:26                 ` Jon Nelson
2007-06-06  0:46                   ` Neil Brown
2007-06-10 19:18                 ` Iain Rauch
2007-06-10 20:17                   ` Justin Piszcz

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