From: Louis-David Mitterrand <vindex+lists-linux-raid@apartia.org>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dm-crypt over raid6 unreadable after crash
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 09:57:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110711075729.GB32187@apartia.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E1A3955.7060207@hardwarefreak.com>
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 06:44:21PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>
> Moral of this story: Using live CDs to troubleshoot Linux RAID arrays,
> LVM volumes, dmcrypt, etc, is tricky at best, fraught with disaster at
> worst. Always have a "system rescue" CD/DVD built from the particular
> machine in question at the ready. Most distros have a facility for
> building such a per machine boot/rescue CD. Such media will have the
> same kernel and module versions, the system's mdadm configuration, and
> all other system specific stuff needed to properly troubleshoot and repair.
>
> If such rescue media had been used the OP would have likely experienced
> far less grief, and might already had this problem fixed.
A live CD like grml can properly auto-start a md array. My problem
came from doing a --create instead of an --assemble at some point.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-11 7:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-06 16:12 dm-crypt over raid6 unreadable after crash Louis-David Mitterrand
2011-07-06 17:00 ` Phil Turmel
2011-07-07 9:05 ` Louis-David Mitterrand
2011-07-07 12:41 ` Phil Turmel
2011-07-07 13:09 ` Louis-David Mitterrand
2011-07-07 13:32 ` Phil Turmel
2011-07-08 5:40 ` Luca Berra
2011-07-10 12:03 ` Louis-David Mitterrand
2011-07-10 12:28 ` Phil Turmel
2011-07-10 23:44 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-07-11 7:57 ` Louis-David Mitterrand [this message]
2011-07-11 11:49 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-07-11 7:54 ` Louis-David Mitterrand
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