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From: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@SteelEye.com>
To: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@pld-linux.org>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: raid5 on 2.4.21 and reconstruction problem
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 11:44:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F3BAE67.EF1D509F@SteelEye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200308141024.42208.arekm@pld-linux.org

Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:

> I'll check. Whole /dev/sdb device should be ok because I have part of

Not necessarily. You could be getting sector read/write errors on one
part of the disk while the rest of the disk is fine...

> /dev/md1 here, too (/dev/sdb3) and it's working fine.


> Why failed? - did it read that information from old superblock? 

Yes, if there was a superblock there, it would have read it.


> If yes then I
> have feature request: avility to mdadm to erease old superblocks from
> cmdline.

This feature already exists. Try mdadm --zero-superblock <dev>.

--
Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-14 15:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-13 10:36 raid5 on 2.4.21 and reconstruction problem Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2003-08-14  2:09 ` Neil Brown
2003-08-14  8:24   ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2003-08-14 15:44     ` Paul Clements [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-07 10:50 Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2003-08-08  0:51 ` Neil Brown
2003-08-11 21:20 ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2003-08-12  2:49   ` Neil Brown

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