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From: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Steve Evans <jeeping@gmail.com>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mdadm degraded RAID5 failure
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 11:44:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4902F881.9080305@dgreaves.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18690.48372.369694.309381@notabene.brown>

Neil Brown wrote:
>> mdadm --assemble --force --run /dev/md1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdd1
>>
>> Did work partially -
>>
> Hmm.. That really shouldn't have worked.  The kernel should have
> rejected the array...

Did you notice: 2.6.8-3-686
mdadm - v1.9.0 - 04 February 2005

I don't really recall the history of md and mdadm but I'd suggest trying to
repair in a modern recovery/live-CD environment.

David


-- 
"Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..."

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-25 10:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <6cc8e9ed0810221350o2b8b3aedm3d1c229fe7e66163@mail.gmail.com>
2008-10-22 20:52 ` mdadm degraded RAID5 failure Steve Evans
2008-10-24 18:47   ` Steve Evans
2008-10-25  6:30   ` Neil Brown
2008-10-25 10:44     ` David Greaves [this message]
2008-10-29 22:16     ` Steve Evans
2008-11-04 21:35       ` Steve Evans
2008-11-06  5:41         ` Neil Brown

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