linux-raid.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Maurice Hilarius <maurice@harddata.com>
To: Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: strange RAID5 problem
Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 16:19:22 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4461156A.3050903@harddata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060509192053.GA27247@percy.comedia.it>

Luca Berra wrote:
> ..
>>> I don't believe you, prove it (/proc/partitions)
>>>
>> I understand. Here we go then. Devices in question bracketed with "**":
>>
> ok, now i do.
> is the /dev/sdw1 device file correctly created?
> you could try straceing mdadm to see what happens
>
> what about the other suggestion? trying to stop the array and restart
> it, since it is marked as inactive.
> L.
>
Here is what we ended up doing that fixed it.
Thanks to Neil on the --force, however even with that,
ALL parameters were needed on the mdadm -C or it still refused.
We used EVMS  to rebuild as that is what originally created the RAID.

mdadm -C /dev/md3 --chunk=256 --level=5 --parity=ls --raid-devices=16
--force /dev/evms/.nodes/sdq1 /dev/evms/.nodes/sdr1
/dev/evms/.nodes/sds1 /dev/evms/.nodes/sdt1 /dev/evms/.nodes/sdu1
/dev/evms/.nodes/sdv1 missing /dev/evms/.nodes/sdx1
/dev/evms/.nodes/sdy1 /dev/evms/.nodes/sdz1 /dev/evms/.nodes/sdaa1
/dev/evms/.nodes/sdab1 /dev/evms/.nodes/sdac1 /dev/evms/.nodes/sdad1
/dev/evms/.nodes/sdae1 /dev/evms/.nodes/sdaf1

Notice we are assembling a device with a "missing" member, and the
devices are in "order" per: mdamd -D /dev/md3

This was the *only* that it would come up. It was mountable, data seems
intact.
We started the rebuild with no errors by simply adding the device
as I mentioned before with -a.

Then sped it up via:

echo "100000" > /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_min

Because frankly we have the resources to do so and need it going as fast
as possible.

-- 

Regards,
	Maurice


  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-09 22:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-09  5:30 strange RAID5 problem Maurice Hilarius
2006-05-09  5:45 ` Neil Brown
2006-05-09  5:58 ` Luca Berra
2006-05-09 16:16   ` Maurice Hilarius
2006-05-09 19:20     ` Luca Berra
2006-05-09 22:19       ` Maurice Hilarius [this message]
2006-05-10 14:54         ` Thanks! Was:[Re: strange RAID5 problem] Maurice Hilarius
2006-05-09  6:12 ` strange RAID5 problem CaT

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=4461156A.3050903@harddata.com \
    --to=maurice@harddata.com \
    --cc=bluca@comedia.it \
    --cc=linux-raid@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=neilb@suse.de \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).