From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shaya Potter Subject: Re: recovering from raid5 corruption Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:41:50 -0400 Message-ID: <4F9DD1BE.4080109@gmail.com> References: <4F9DC2E5.1090509@gmail.com> <20120430085257.65d19c20@notabene.brown> <4F9DCEC6.1050109@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4F9DCEC6.1050109@gmail.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: NeilBrown Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 04/29/2012 07:29 PM, Shaya Potter wrote: > > however, now I need to figure out how to recreate the lvm appropriately. > I see the configuration "file" in at the start of the raid array (less > -f /dev/md0 which I'm including below) > > I asusme there should be a way to reuse this data to recreate the lvm? > > any continued advice would be appreciated, googling doesn't seem to come > up with much if one doesn't have a backup of the lvm data. found an old linux journal article that seems to say what I should do, but not working. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8874?page=0,2 root@nas:~# vgcfgrestore -f 1.cfg raid5 Incorrect metadata area header checksum Incorrect metadata area header checksum Restore failed.