From: Rich Rauenzahn <rrauenza@gmail.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Cc: neilb@suse.de
Subject: Re: reshape from raid5 to raid6 failed -- and backup file is gone?
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:46:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <q2u657cbef51004221446l41381e31hf26f96072b04983e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <n2j657cbef51004221132uf2d7f5cds1268f848fee1489e@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Rich Rauenzahn <rrauenza@gmail.com> wrote:
> The system froze sometime in the middle of the night, and oddly... the
> --backup-file I specified last night is missing. Is there any reason
> that mdadm would unlink it for a short span of time during the
> reshape?
I'm at the point now where I'm just looking for triage advice so I can
work on it tonight. Most of the contents were backed up offsite, but a
little bit out of date. Nothing critical, but inconvenient, like
recovery images for relative's systems.
Do I kill it and start over, or is there any hope of recovering from
the reshape?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-22 21:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-22 18:32 reshape from raid5 to raid6 failed -- and backup file is gone? Rich Rauenzahn
2010-04-22 21:46 ` Rich Rauenzahn [this message]
2010-04-22 22:09 ` Neil Brown
2010-04-22 22:26 ` Rich Rauenzahn
2010-04-22 22:37 ` Neil Brown
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