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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@shaw.ca>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: potentially lost largeish raid5 array..
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:32:10 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110923143210.583e11ec@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201109221950.36910.tfjellstrom@shaw.ca>

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On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:50:36 -0600 Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@shaw.ca>
wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've been struggling with a SAS card recently that has had poor driver support 
> for a long time, and tonight its decided to kick every drive in the array one 
> after the other. Now mdstat shows:
> 
> md1 : active raid5 sdf[0](F) sdh[7](F) sdi[6](F) sdj[5](F) sde[3](F) sdd[2](F) 
> sdg[1](F)
>       5860574208 blocks super 1.1 level 5, 512k chunk, algorithm 2 [7/0] 
> [_______]
>       bitmap: 3/8 pages [12KB], 65536KB chunk
> 
> Does the fact that I'm using a bitmap save my rear here? Or am I hosed? If I'm 
> not hosed, is there a way I can recover the array without rebooting? maybe 
> just a --stop and a --assemble ? If that won't work, will a reboot be ok?
> 
> I'd really prefer not to have lost all of my data. Please tell me (please) 
> that it is possible to recover the array. All but sdi are still visible in 
> /dev (I may be able to get it back via hotplug maybe, but it'd get sdk or 
> something).
> 

mdadm --stop /dev/md1

mdadm --examine /dev/sd[fhijedg]
mdadm --assemble --verbose /dev/md1 /dev/sd[fhijedg]

Report all output.

NeilBrown


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  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-23  4:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-23  1:50 potentially lost largeish raid5 array Thomas Fjellstrom
2011-09-23  4:32 ` NeilBrown [this message]
2011-09-23  4:49   ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2011-09-23  4:58     ` Roman Mamedov
2011-09-23  5:10       ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2011-09-23  7:06         ` David Brown
2011-09-23  7:37           ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2011-09-23 12:56         ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-09-23 13:28           ` David Brown
2011-09-23 16:22           ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2011-09-23 23:24             ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-09-24  0:11               ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2011-09-24 12:17                 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-09-24 13:11                   ` (unknown) Tomáš Dulík
2011-09-24 15:16                   ` potentially lost largeish raid5 array David Brown
2011-09-24 16:38                     ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-09-25 13:03                       ` David Brown
2011-09-25 14:39                         ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-09-25 15:18                           ` David Brown
2011-09-25 23:58                             ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-09-26 10:51                               ` David Brown
2011-09-26 19:52                                 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-09-26 20:29                                   ` David Brown
2011-09-26 23:28                                   ` Krzysztof Adamski
2011-09-27  3:53                                     ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-09-24 17:48                   ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2011-09-24  5:59             ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2011-09-24 17:53               ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2011-09-25 18:07           ` Robert L Mathews
2011-09-26  6:08             ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2011-09-26  2:26           ` Krzysztof Adamski
2011-09-23  5:11     ` NeilBrown
2011-09-23  5:22       ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2011-09-23  8:09         ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2011-09-23  9:15           ` NeilBrown
2011-09-23 16:26             ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2011-09-25  9:37               ` NeilBrown
2011-09-24 21:57             ` Aapo Laine
2011-09-25  9:18               ` Kristleifur Daðason
2011-09-25 10:10               ` NeilBrown
2011-10-01 23:21                 ` Aapo Laine
2011-10-02 17:00                   ` Aapo Laine
2011-10-05  2:13                     ` NeilBrown
2011-10-05  2:06                   ` NeilBrown
2011-11-05 12:17                 ` Alexander Lyakas
2011-11-06 21:58                   ` NeilBrown

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