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From: Titus Winters <twinters@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
To: Jakob Oestergaard <jakob@unthought.net>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Not-fresh + failure
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 09:24:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020619092435.A6189@cs.hmc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020618233748.GA13086@unthought.net>; from jakob@unthought.net on Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 01:37:48AM +0200

My apologies for asking a question that was in the FAQ.  I thought the
not-fresh attribute was perhaps recoverable with something less scary
than mkraid --force.  Turns out this was the correct solution, and
my data is recovered, safe and sound.  Thank you very much.

-Titus

On (06/19 01:37), Jakob Oestergaard wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 04:28:13PM -0700, Titus Winters wrote:
> > Please help my poor file server: 
> > 
> > I've got 4 scsi drives on two controllers running RAID-5 in software.
> > 
> > So as near as I can tell I've got one drive that failed and cut off 
> > communications with the other disk on the SCSI controller (or something)
> > which made that second drive become not-fresh before the kernel panicked.
> > 
> > dmseg says that one is not-fresh, and the other is faulty.  How do I
> > proceed without data loss?  I've tried raidhotadd to bring up the 
> > not-fresh drive, but the raid device can't start up and thus I can't 
> > hot add it.  
> 
> Section 6.1 in the Software RAID HOWTO:
> 
> http://unthought.net/Software-RAID.HOWTO/Software-RAID.HOWTO-6.html#ss6.1
> 
> -- 
> ................................................................
> :   jakob@unthought.net   : And I see the elder races,         :
> :.........................: putrid forms of man                :
> :   Jakob Østergaard      : See him rise and claim the earth,  :
> :        OZ9ABN           : his downfall is at hand.           :
> :.........................:............{Konkhra}...............:
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-19 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-18 23:28 Not-fresh + failure Titus Winters
2002-06-18 23:37 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2002-06-19 16:24   ` Titus Winters [this message]
2002-06-19 16:39     ` Jakob Oestergaard

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