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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: "Vanhorn, Mike" <michael.vanhorn@wright.edu>
Cc: "linux-raid@vger.kernel.org" <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: md raid6 not working
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:34:02 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120821083402.5e5b2fcf@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CC5802CB.287BB%michael.vanhorn@wright.edu>

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On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 19:06:17 +0000 "Vanhorn, Mike"
<michael.vanhorn@wright.edu> wrote:

> 
> I have/had an 8-disk md raid 6, /dev/md0. At some point over the weekend,
> two of the disks suddently became marked as "spare" and the other has
> disappeared completely (at least as far as mdadm is concerned).
> 
> All eight disks seem to be just fine, so I think the data is okay, and if
> I could just convince it to start the array with all 8 disks, I actually
> think everything would be fine. However, everything I've tried has come to
> nothing, and now I think I am stuck.
> 
> Is there some way to just "force" is to change the two spare disks from
> "spare" to "active", and then let it go?
> 
> Here's what I think are relevant details:
> 
> The RAID is/was composed of /dev/sd[bcdefghi]1.
> 
> /proc/mdstat says:
> 
> # cat /proc/mdstat
> Personalities : [raid6]
> md0 : inactive sdc1[1] sdd1[10] sdi1[8] sdg1[5] sdf1[4] sde1[3] sdh1[2]
>       13674583552 blocks
>        
> unused devices: <none>
> # 
> 
> So, here, sdb is the only one missing. However, if I try to start the array
> 
> # mdadm --assemble /dev/md0
> mdadm: /dev/sdi1 has no superblock - assembly aborted
> #

What is the result of:

  mdadm -S /dev/md0
  mdadm -Avvv /dev/md0
??

NeilBrown



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  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-20 22:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-20 19:06 md raid6 not working Vanhorn, Mike
2012-08-20 22:34 ` NeilBrown [this message]
2012-08-21 11:17   ` Vanhorn, Mike
2012-08-21 22:38     ` NeilBrown
2012-08-22 12:57       ` Vanhorn, Mike

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