From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Wesley W. Terpstra" Subject: Re: kernel refuses devices mdadm -E accepts Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 19:32:50 +0100 Message-ID: References: <54BE9E47.9030706@turmel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <54BE9E47.9030706@turmel.org> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Phil Turmel Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Phil Turmel wrote: >> Kernel version 3.17.8 and mdadm version 3.3.2. > There have been many bug fixes to mdadm since that kernel was retired. Really? I will give that a shot. > Show us the output of that if it doesn't work (it should resume your > reshape). I will try that. It was totally stupid reshape, I was changing the "data-offset" to align it. Really unnecessary, and really slow, so I feel like an idiot for starting it. >> Thanks for any help. If I lose this array, I am going to face a lot of grief... > I shouldn't have to say this, but RAID is for availability, not for data > security. You still need a backup system for any important data. Sure. The really vital (and small) stuff I have backed up elsewhere, but the sheer volume of raw video my girlfriend records is not economically feasible to backup beyond raid+btrfs snapshots.