Re: Fwd: RAID5 Recovery

[David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>]

Neil Cavan wrote:
> Thanks for taking a look, David.
No problem.

> Kernel:
> 2.6.15-27-k7, stock for Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
> 
> mdadm:
> mdadm - v1.12.0 - 14 June 2005
OK - fairly old then. Not really worth trying to figure out why hdc got re-added
when things had gone wrong.

> You're right, earlier in /var/log/messages there's a notice that hdg
> dropped, I missed it before. I use mdadm --monitor, but I recently
> changed the target email address - I guess it didn't take properly.
> 
> As for replacing hdc, thanks for the diagnosis but it won't help: the
> drive is actually fine, as is hdg. I've replaced hdc before, only to
> have the brand new hdc show the same behaviour, and SMART says the
> drive is A-OK. There's something flaky about these PCI IDE
> controllers. I think it's new system time.
Any excuse eh? :)


> Reiserfs recovery-wise: any suggestions? A simple fsck doesn't find a
> file system superblock. Is --rebuild-sb the way to go here?
No idea, sorry. I only ever tried Reiser once and it failed. It was very hard to
get recovered so I swapped back to XFS.

Good luck on the fscking

David