Re: raid5 with 2 disks not working correctly. Need help!

Roy Lim
2009-01-17T20:59:46Z

Hi!

Just wanted to say that the array is up and running and no data loss
so I'm quite happy now!

So thank you for the help on the command Neil Brown.

/Roy

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Roy Lim <cableroy@gmail.com> wrote:
> Call me coward but...
> ares:~# mdadm -C /dev/md0 -l5 -n5 /dev/hde1 /dev/hdg1 /dev/hdi1
> missing /dev/sda1
> mdadm: /dev/hde1 appears to contain an ext2fs file system
> size=1953535744K mtime=Mon Feb 4 20:57:17 2008
> mdadm: /dev/hde1 appears to be part of a raid array:
> level=raid5 devices=5 ctime=Mon Feb 4 18:25:28 2008
> mdadm: /dev/hdg1 appears to be part of a raid array:
> level=raid5 devices=5 ctime=Mon Feb 4 18:25:28 2008
> Continue creating array?
>
>
> hde1 appears to contain an ext2fs file system?? No i don't think so..
>
> But experts... can't i create with assume-clean without hdk1 then? I
> ask cause there is 1.5TB data there and i'm not any expert on raid :)
>
>
> Roy
>
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Roy Lim <cableroy@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>> I have ran into a serious problem with my raid5 array and need expert
>> help on this one.
>>
>> My array is with 5x500GB disks none spare, I've accidentally did a
>> unclean shutdown of the server. When it came up it gave me this error:
>>
>> Dec 15 09:07:11 ares kernel: md: kicking non-fresh hdk1 from array!
>> Dec 15 09:07:11 ares kernel: md: unbind<hdk1>
>> Dec 15 09:07:11 ares kernel: md: export_rdev(hdk1)
>> Dec 15 09:07:11 ares kernel: md: md0: raid array is not clean --
>> starting background reconstruction
>> Dec 15 09:07:11 ares kernel: raid5: device hde1 operational as raid disk 0
>> Dec 15 09:07:11 ares kernel: raid5: device sda1 operational as raid disk 4
>> Dec 15 09:07:11 ares kernel: raid5: device hdi1 operational as raid disk 2
>> Dec 15 09:07:11 ares kernel: raid5: device hdg1 operational as raid disk 1
>> Dec 15 09:07:11 ares kernel: raid5: cannot start dirty degraded array for md0
>>
>> However i managed to get this back up with remove and add, the system
>> was rebuilding the array. around 70-80% in the process i was going to
>> prepare to decrypt it (luks crypted) so I'm going to mount the usb
>> stick witch has the encryption key however when i was going to mount
>> it i tried to mount wrong device, resulting trying to mount a device
>> in the array (sda1) i hit repeatedly crtl+c, now taking a look at the
>> details on the array it looks like this:
>>
>> /dev/md0:
>> Version : 00.90.03
>> Creation Time : Mon Feb 4 18:25:28 2008
>> Raid Level : raid5
>> Array Size : 1953535744 (1863.04 GiB 2000.42 GB)
>> Device Size : 488383936 (465.76 GiB 500.11 GB)
>> Raid Devices : 5
>> Total Devices : 5
>> Preferred Minor : 0
>> Persistence : Superblock is persistent
>>
>> Update Time : Mon Dec 15 16:02:54 2008
>> State : clean, degraded
>> Active Devices : 3
>> Working Devices : 4
>> Failed Devices : 1
>> Spare Devices : 1
>>
>> Layout : left-symmetric
>> Chunk Size : 64K
>>
>> UUID : 856a6e4e:a1663e98:9efbd2b1:7507133b
>> Events : 0.74
>>
>> Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
>> 0 33 1 0 active sync /dev/hde1
>> 1 34 1 1 active sync /dev/hdg1
>> 2 56 1 2 active sync /dev/hdi1
>> 3 0 0 3 removed
>> 4 0 0 4 removed
>>
>> 5 57 1 - spare /dev/hdk1
>> 6 8 1 - faulty spare /dev/sda1
>>
>> a quick summary: hdk1 was the one failing in the first place, witch
>> was about to get rebuild, sda1 was the device i tried to mount while
>> reconstruction the data. As you can see, hdk1 is now marked as spare
>> and sda1 a faulty spare. I have not touch the array after this. Can
>> anyone help me out? How can i force mdadm to set the sda1 to active
>> sync so i can mount the array and start a backup? Can i use dd_rescue
>> to file of all of the disks and play with it?
>>
>> All help is appreciated!
>>
>> /Roy
>>
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