From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Valarti Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3A_Server_down=2Dfail=E2=80=8Bed_RAID5=2Dasking_for_some_assi?= =?UTF-8?Q?stance?= Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:31:26 -0600 Message-ID: References: <20110422125734.1a68a736@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110422125734.1a68a736@notabene.brown> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: NeilBrown , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 8:57 PM, NeilBrown wrote: =2E. > Possibly. > > It looks like sdb2 failed in October 2009 !!!! and nobody noticed. =A0= 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 wat= ch this. > If you > > =A0mdadm -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= =2E 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. > =A0Also 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html