Hi, I had an mdraid5 array made from four partitions of four disks, and had LUKS on top of it. One of the drives developed a few bad sectors (but didn't fail completely), so I replaced it. While the array was resyncing, one of the other drives threw a few errors, so mdadm marked it as failed and stopped the array. At this point, I made a mistake. I re-created the degraded array with: mdadm --create /dev/md2 --level=5 --raid-devices=4 --assume-clean missing /dev/sda4 /dev/sdc4 /dev/sdb4 However, I forgot to specify --metadata=0.90 (which the original array used). I immediately rectified this, but by then mdadm had written a raid superblock somewhere where originally there was none, and now trying to luksOpen the volume with a known good passphrase results in "No key available with this passphrase". I still have the drive I removed, intact. I have some backups but they're older than I'd like; is there anything sensible I might to that could help me recover the LUKS volume? My first idea is to re-create the array with the removed drive included (making sure to specify the metadata version). This entails uploading ~1TB over a 10MB/s link, so I thought I'd ask first whether this had any chance of succeeding at all, or whether there was anything else to try. Thanks. Andras _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
