Re: RAID 6, 6 device array - all devices lost superblock

Wols Lists
2022-08-28T09:54:47Z

On 28/08/2022 10:14, Wols Lists wrote:
>> Currently I have no /dev/md* devices.
>> I have access to the old mdadm.conf file - have tried assembling with
>> it, with the default mdadm.conf, and with no mdadm.conf file in /etc
>> and /etc/mdadm.
>
> It looks like the drives weren't partitioned :-( I think you're into
> forensics.

Whoops - my system froze while I was originally writing my reply, and I
forgot to put this into my rewrite ...

Look up overlays in the wiki. I've never done it myself, but a fair few
people have said the instructions worked a treat.

You're basically making the drives read-only (all writes get dumped into
the overlay file), and then re-creating the array over the top, so you
can test whether you got it right. If you don't, you just ditch the
overlays and start again, if you did get it right you can recreate the
array for real.

Cheers,
Wol