From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Raz Subject: Re: HELP! my raid5 ate my data! Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:54:59 +0200 Message-ID: <5d96567b0810210954o668ff66eg75b7ab30254980cc@mail.gmail.com> References: <9512192b0810210915xa27061bkdc37e212f17c944b@mail.gmail.com> <5d96567b0810210930r5bc4d068mef57dcfb4a237603@mail.gmail.com> <9512192b0810210940v77675287od420f7ea36fbf2de@mail.gmail.com> <5d96567b0810210944v4e50a52csfbde7df00f1fcd9e@mail.gmail.com> <9512192b0810210946o31a451a5i91aa3f03e3b919a9@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <9512192b0810210946o31a451a5i91aa3f03e3b919a9@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Morgan Wahl Cc: Linux RAID Mailing List List-Id: linux-raid.ids When I these problems I : 1. remove the hard drive from the computer. 2. boot. 3. if raid assembles I mount it. if is is not assembled i mount manually. I never use ro. only rw. On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Morgan Wahl wrote: > Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] > md0 : active raid5 sda1[0] sdd1[3] sdc1[2] sdb1[1] > 58604736 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] [UUUU] > > unused devices: > > the raid seems to still activate whenever i start my computer, that > why it's active right now. > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Raz wrote: >> cat /proc/mdstats. >> >> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Morgan Wahl wrote: >>> these lines are the only uncommented ones in mdadm.conf: >>> DEVICE /dev/sd[abcd]1 >>> ARRAY /dev/md0 devices=/dev/sda1,/dev/sdb1,/dev/sdc1,/dev/sdd1 >>> >>> mdadm -Q /dev/md0 >>> mdadm --examine /dev/sda1 >>> mdadm --examine /dev/sdb1 >>> mdadm --examine /dev/sdc1 >>> mdadm --examine /dev/sdd1 >>> >>> mdadm /dev/md0 --remove /dev/sdc1 >>> >>> mdadm -A /dev/md0 >>> >>> mdadm --readonly /dev/md0 >>> >>> mount /dev/md0 /mnt/temp >>> (this return an error) >>> e2fsck -n /dev/md0 >>> (lots of errors) >>> >>> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Raz wrote: >>>> Please provide the exact sequence of operations. what mdadm command >>>> did you use at each phase ? Did you try to mount it rw ? >>>> >>>> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Morgan Wahl wrote: >>>>> yesterday I had a problem with the SATA bus one of my drives is on, >>>>> which i've since fixed. I have a raid5 on four 20GB partitions (each >>>>> on it's own drive, of course). The one that failed was sdc1. when i >>>>> rebooted, the raid was no longer active (according to `mdadm -Q >>>>> /dev/md0`). I ran `mdadm --examine ` on each drive. For sdc1 it said >>>>> everything was fine, but for the other three drives sdc1 was marked as >>>>> failed. I've never recovered from a drive failure before and I don't >>>>> think I did it correctly. I removed sdc1 from the raid and then >>>>> incrementally added it again. (I now realize I should've started the >>>>> raid with it removed and done a backup.) I started the raid again with >>>>> all four drives, and put it in readonly mode and tried to mount it, >>>>> but it presumably still isn't set up right since it refuses to mount >>>>> and `e2fsck -n` returns myriad errors. >>>>> >>>>> Did starting the raid with the bad disk destroy everything? did it >>>>> only destory a little (assuming fsck can get the filesystem back into >>>>> a useable state)? How can I even find out what's wrong? I do have a >>>>> separate terabyte disk that i've copied images of the disks to, so I >>>>> can perform experiment on them, but I'm not sure what to do. >>>>> >>>>> Help! Please! >>>>> >>>>> -Morgan >>>>> -- >>>>> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in >>>>> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >>>>> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >>>>> >>>> >>> -- >>> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in >>> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >>> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >>> >> >