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From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Help with recovering resized raid where machine crashed while PENDING
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 18:24:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110705162433.GB18875@login1.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110705104923.4779e295@notabene.brown>

[Neil Brown]
> I probably wouldn't have helped.  It is supposed to write backup
> stuff to the spares and if it didn't do that, it probably wouldn't
> have written it to a file either.

Right.  Is this a bug or the way it is supposed to work?

> The easiest fix for now is to recreate the array.
> 
> mdadm -CR /dev/md3 --metadata=0.90 -n3 -l5 -c64 /dev/sdb2 /dev/sdc2
> /dev/sdf2 --assume-clean
>
> should do it.

Thank you.  How did you determine which devices to use and which order
to list them in?  I've since rebooted and want to make sure I do not
pick the wrong devices.

> Then if that looks good, add the extra devices and grow the array
> again.

Will try when md2 is done growing tomorrow. :)

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-05 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-02  8:54 Help with recovering resized raid where machine crashed while PENDING Petter Reinholdtsen
2011-07-04 14:21 ` Petter Reinholdtsen
2011-07-05  0:49 ` NeilBrown
2011-07-05 16:24   ` Petter Reinholdtsen [this message]
2011-07-05 23:39     ` NeilBrown
2011-07-06 20:41       ` Petter Reinholdtsen

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