From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sevrin Robstad Subject: Re: trying to "brute-force" my RAID 5... Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 23:23:22 +0200 Message-ID: <44BBFFCA.5030309@online.no> References: <44BAB76D.9070809@start.no> <62b0912f0607170413x465b363eh92c811da67cc363@mail.gmail.com> <44BBFF5A.7010702@start.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-reply-to: <44BBFF5A.7010702@start.no> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Molle Bestefich wrote: >> Sevrin Robstad wrote: >> >>> I got a friend of mine to make a list of all the 6^6 combinations of >>> dev >>> 1 2 3 4 5 missing, >>> >>> shouldn't this work ??? >> >> >> Only if you get the layout and chunk size right. >> >> And make sure that you know whether you were using partitions (eg. >> sda1) or whole drives (eg. sda - bad idea). >> > Thanks for replying.. I guess I'm pretty sure that ONE of the 66 > combination should be the right one?? And chunk size - 64kbyte is > default, yes ? I created the RAID when I installed Fedora Core 3 some > time ago, didn't do anything special so the chunks should be 64kbyte > and parity should be left-symmetric ? > I'm also sure that I created it on partitions, and all disks has a > "Linux Raid" partition on it. > > But still, when I grep the log of my script I get no partition out of > any combination... > > Any Idea ? > > > Sevrin