From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Marcin M. Jessa" Subject: Re: Recovery of failed RAID 6 and LVM Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:26:23 +0200 Message-ID: <4E8374DF.1030101@yazzy.org> References: <4E7EDE58.3000804@yazzy.org> <4E834758.2090508@hardwarefreak.com> <4E834B8A.9090902@yazzy.org> <201109281256.10312.thomas@fjellstrom.ca> Reply-To: lists@yazzy.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <201109281256.10312.thomas@fjellstrom.ca> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: thomas@fjellstrom.ca Cc: stan@hardwarefreak.com, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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. -- Marcin M. Jessa