From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: berk walker Subject: Re: big raid5 trouble Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2006 18:24:10 -0500 Message-ID: <43B8649A.5030102@panix.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Czigola Gabor Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Czigola Gabor wrote: > Hello all! > > I'm not sure, that is this the right place to ask such question, but > I'm in a big trouble with my RAID5 array. > > My last chance to get any of the data back stored in this array, is to > "unspare" a spare disk, that is untouched since the removal. > > I googled but can't find neither a documentation nor a specification > where and how the spare flag is stored on a disk. Can you please help me? > > Thanks a lot. I don 't think that will help you, per se. Why do you say it is your last chance? If you have n-1 disks OK, then you may be OK. If not, a spare will not help. Can you tell us more? b-