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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Ian Young <ian@duffrecords.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: not enough operational mirrors
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 15:47:17 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140922154717.6cd3cab2@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANs+QMzWWqh-5MemOrbguaq7fNzJPDaYUH66K0rgGrnaXY7FNA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 22:32:19 -0700 Ian Young <ian@duffrecords.com> wrote:

> My 6-drive software RAID 10 array failed.  The individual drives
> failed one at a time over the past few months but it's been an
> extremely busy summer and I didn't have the free time to RMA the
> drives and rebuild the array.  Now I'm wishing I had acted sooner
> because three of the drives are marked as removed and the array
> doesn't have enough mirrors to start.  I followed the recovery
> instructions at raid.wiki.kernel.org and, before making things any
> worse, saved the status using mdadm --examine and consulted this
> mailing list.  Here's the status:
> 
> http://pastebin.com/KkV8e8Gq
> 
> I can see that the event counts on sdd2 and sdf2 are significantly far
> behind, so we can consider that data too old.  sdc2 is only behind by
> two events, so any data loss there should be minimal.  If I can make
> the array start with sd[abce]2 I think that will be enough to mount
> the filesystem, back up my data, and start replacing drives.  How do I
> do that?

Use the "--force" option with "--assemble".

NeilBrown

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-22  5:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-22  5:32 not enough operational mirrors Ian Young
2014-09-22  5:47 ` NeilBrown [this message]
2014-09-22 17:17   ` Ian Young
2014-09-22 23:53     ` NeilBrown
2014-09-23  0:55       ` Ian Young
2014-09-23 17:07         ` Ian Young
2014-10-05 21:43           ` Ian Young
     [not found]   ` <CANs+QMwUWZ+z0Kk-voHRLZaherOh8K8o_gCXVvw7nnXYT_goUg@mail.gmail.com>
2014-09-22 23:09     ` Ian Young

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