From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stan Hoeppner Subject: Re: Recovery of failed RAID 6 and LVM Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:50:58 -0500 Message-ID: <4E828B92.40502@hardwarefreak.com> References: <4E7EDE58.3000804@yazzy.org> <20110926074002.6399de56@notabene.brown> <4E7FA3E8.5010603@yazzy.org> <20110926081853.2819622b@notabene.brown> <4E804062.3020700@yazzy.org> <20110926193130.6377f5b9@notabene.brown> <4E82203A.60507@yazzy.org> <20110928091335.1df35f8e@notabene.brown> Reply-To: stan@hardwarefreak.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110928091335.1df35f8e@notabene.brown> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: NeilBrown Cc: lists@yazzy.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 9/27/2011 6:13 PM, NeilBrown wrote: > On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:12:58 +0200 "Marcin M. Jessa" wrote: > >> On 9/26/11 11:31 AM, NeilBrown wrote: >>> On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:05:38 +0200 "Marcin M. Jessa" wrote: >>> >>>> On 9/26/11 12:18 AM, NeilBrown wrote: >>>> >>>>> Do you remember what filesystem you had on 'storage'? Was it ext3 or ext4 or >>>>> xfs or something else? >>>> >>>> You're giving me some hope here and then silence :) >>>> Why did you ask about the file system? Should I run fsck on the LV ? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> You already did run fsck on the LV. It basically said that it didn't >>> recognise the filesystem at all. >>> I asked in case maybe it was XFS in which case a different tool would be >>> required. >> >> Looks like I didn't remember correctly. I ran testdisk and it reported >> the file system to be XFS. What would you suggest now Neil? >> >> > > Presumably > xfs_check /dev/fridge/storage > > and then maybe > xfs_repair /dev/fridge/storage > > but I have no experience with XFS - I'm just reading man pages. > > NeilBrown Reading the thread, and the many like it over the past months/years, may yield a clue as to why you wish to move on to something other than Linux RAID... -- Stan