Re: Recovery of failed RAID 6 and LVM

["Marcin M. Jessa" <lists@yazzy.org>]

On 9/28/11 8:56 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> On September 28, 2011, Marcin M. Jessa wrote:
>> On 9/28/11 6:12 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>>> On 9/28/2011 2:10 AM, Marcin M. Jessa wrote:
>>>> On 9/28/11 4:50 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>>>>> 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...
>>>>>
>>>> :) I will give it another chance.
>>>>
>>>> In case of failure FreeBSD and ZFS would be another option.
>>>
>>> I was responding to Neil's exhaustion with mdadm. I was speculating that
>>> help threads such as yours may be a contributing factor,
>>> requesting/requiring Neil to become Superman many times per month to try
>>> to save some OP's bacon.
>>
>> That's what mailing lists are for. And more will come as long as there
>> is no documentation on how to save your behind in case of failures like
>> that. Or if the docs with examples available online are utterly useless.
>
> I think that those of us that have been helped on the list should think about
> contributing some wiki docs, if there's one we can edit.


I have a site, ezunix.org (a bit crippled since the crash) where I 
document anything I come across that can be useful.
But after all the messages I still don't know what to do if you lose 3 
drives in a 5 drive RAID6 setup ;)
I was told I was doing it wrong but never how to do it right.
And that's the case of all the mailing lists I came across before I 
found that wikipedia site with incorrect instructions.



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Marcin M. Jessa