On November 11, 2020 8:58:02 PM EST, H <agents@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On 11/04/2020 10:21 PM, John Pierce wrote:
>> is it RAID 0 (striped) or raid1 (mirrored) ??
>>
>> if you wrote on half of a raid0 stripe set, you basically trashed it.
>> blocks are striped across both drives, so like 16k on the first disk,
>then
>> 16k on the 2nd then 16k back on the first, repeat (replace 16k with
>> whatever your raid stripe size is).
>>
>> if its a raid 1 mirror, then either disk by itself has the complete
>file
>> system on it, so you should be able to remirror the changed disk onto
>the
>> other drive. you MUST do that re-mirror because your two disks are
>no
>> longer identical, and reads will alternate between them, so some
>reads will
>> get new data and others will get old data, which will be highly
>chaotic.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 6:18 PM H <agents@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> My computer running CentOS 7 is configured to use BIOS RAID0 and has
>two
>>> identical SSDs which are also encrypted. I had a crash the other day
>and
>>> due to a bug in the operating system update, I am unable to boot the
>system
>>> in RAID mode since dracut does not recognize the disks in grub.
>After
>>> modifying the grub command line I am able to boot the system from
>one of
>>> the harddisks after entering the LUKS password, seemingly without
>any
>>> problems but am obviously not running in RAID0 mode. When I booted
>in
>>> single-disk mode I am sure there were some new files created on the
>single
>>> SSD the system sees but I fairly quickly shut it down until this can
>be
>>> fixed.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> My question is: once the operating system fix has been released and
>I can
>>> once again boot in BIOS RAID0 mode and decrypting both SSDs (same
>password
>>> entered only once of course), how will the BIOS RAID0 react? How
>will it
>>> handle new files on one disk, altered timestamps etc.?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
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>>
>How do I do the remirroring once the system is working again? I filed a
>bug report on bugs.centos.org
>(https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=17830#c37850) but I could use some
>more assistance to take this further...
>
>It was suggested that "if no kernel boots any more, I am pretty sure
>that your initial ramdisks were rebuild without including a kernel
>module required by LUKS.you should rebuild them , forcing dracut to
>include the missing driver. And in the process you might as well
>upgrade to centos 7.9, kernel 3.10.0-1160.2.2.el7.x86_64 is already
>available in the CR repository."
>
>Unfortunately I do not know how do the above... And I do not know which
>drivers are missing that I need to include...
>
>If anyone would be able to tell me the specific steps I will attempt to
>do the above.
>
>Thank you in advance.
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I should have corrected the previous info, it is RAID1, ie mirroring, not RAID0.
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