From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Boman Subject: Re: Failed during rebuild (raid5) Date: Sat, 04 May 2013 07:29:15 -0400 Message-ID: <5184F10B.10803@midgaard.us> References: <51839E4F.7050102@midgaard.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Ole Tange Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 05/03/2013 08:26 AM, Ole Tange wrote: > On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Andreas Boman wrote: > >> This morning I came up to see the array degraded with two missing drives, >> another failed during the rebuild. > I just started this page for dealing with situations like yours: > https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Recovering_a_failed_software_RAID > > > /Ole Thanks Ole, that is a great resource. Thanks to everybody else who offered advise as well. I'll be getting new disks coming in today and will try to recover. I didn't mean to set of a contentious debate about default behavior of mdadm. However having an option where mdadm can 'try harder' to complete would be a good thing. It should probably remain an option to prevent further beating on the disk and thus further data loss for those that would prefer to remove the disk and clone it before trying to restore. /Andreas