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 19:43:40 +0100 Message-ID: References: <54BE9E47.9030706@turmel.org> <54BE9F2A.9090102@turmel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <54BE9F2A.9090102@turmel.org> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Phil Turmel Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids An email race condition. ;-) On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 7:32 PM, Phil Turmel wrote: > Woops! > I'd still try a liveCD with 3.18.x or 3.19. Right. I am considering ordering one of these new 8TB hard disks so I can raw copy the raid partitions before I try anything drastic. Unfortunately even 8TB won't fit 4x3TB of data. :-/ I am fairly certain my data is still good since all disks have a clean bill of health and other partitions on them worked with bonnie. So, I figure my biggest risk right now, is doing something else stupid. The system remains bootable as the uefi+boot+root filesystems were on RAID1 x4 arrays and not the data RAID5 array. I'm hesitant to take action until I find away to store the raw partitions, but installing 3.19 and booting that from my existing root partition sounds harmless enough. The system does not have a CD-ROM and has insufficient SATA connectors to attach one. I could try booting via a USB drive, though.