From: John Valarti <mdadmuser@gmail.com>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Server down-failed RAID5-asking for some assistance
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:31:26 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTikneT0O5D0nV_8ZTMOs+SpKy3jMZQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110422125734.1a68a736@notabene.brown>
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 8:57 PM, NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> wrote:
..
> Possibly.
>
> It looks like sdb2 failed in October 2009 !!!! and nobody noticed. So your
> array has been running degraded since then.
Hmm, I would say "Oops" but I guess I am happy it was not my job to watch this.
> If you
>
> mdadm -A /dev/md1 --force /dev/sd[acd]2
>
> Then you will have your array back,..
I will be grabbing a set of 4 new drives, plus a spare tomorrow morning.
Thanks VERY much for this!
> Also run "mdadm --monitor" configured to send you email if there is a drive
> failure.
I will do some more reading to figure out how to do that I guess.
Good to know that is possible.
> Also run "mdadm --monitor --oneshot" from a cron tab every day so
> that if you have a degraded array it will nag you about it every day.
More good stuff.
Is there a reasonably good book that one can read to learn this stuff?
I read the man pages and my head is still fuzzy.
> Good luck,
> NeilBrown
Thank you, and much obliged!
I **hope** I will not have to bug you any more about this.
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-21 18:29 Server down-failed RAID5-asking for some assistance John Valarti
2011-04-21 19:59 ` David Brown
[not found] ` <BANLkTim18Sx6JdZO5PiAqnrakDPzy5PNJQ@mail.gmail.com>
2011-04-22 2:32 ` John Valarti
2011-04-22 2:57 ` Server " NeilBrown
2011-04-22 3:31 ` John Valarti [this message]
[not found] ` <BANLkTin0SoBzRAear8Jt+26MnVJWouXoNA@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <20110423074411.78fef94f@notabene.brown>
[not found] ` <BANLkTik_ZY4uoV3E=ua1p+tUD9g8xqQDVg@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <20110423184824.55ee7893@notabene.brown>
[not found] ` <BANLkTi=sCfFFfmZTzj2g8-aDNhDqVK8e-A@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <20110424075101.6763309f@notabene.brown>
2011-04-24 0:07 ` John Valarti
2011-04-24 0:37 ` John Robinson
2011-04-24 1:49 ` John Valarti
2011-04-24 2:12 ` John Robinson
2011-04-24 2:28 ` John Valarti
2011-04-24 2:58 ` NeilBrown
2011-04-24 6:30 ` John Valarti
2011-04-24 2:54 ` NeilBrown
2011-04-24 7:06 ` John Valarti
2011-04-24 8:41 ` NeilBrown
2011-04-24 11:57 ` John Robinson
2011-04-24 12:29 ` NeilBrown
2011-04-24 16:04 ` John Valarti
2011-04-24 16:15 ` John Valarti
2011-04-24 16:31 ` Mathias Burén
2011-04-24 18:41 ` John Valarti
2011-04-22 11:19 ` David Brown
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