From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Greaves Subject: Re: Fwd: RAID5 Recovery Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:59:06 +0000 Message-ID: <473AF11A.4050506@dgreaves.com> References: <473AD4DA.7060801@dgreaves.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Neil Cavan Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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