Good morning, i was stupid enough to format my raid5 disks with xfs and broke the raid instantly :/ Now i tried to rebuild the raid5 with 3 disks but have issues to restore the filesystem on top or even restore files with photorec. Any help is greatly appreciated. Some details: The old raid was in the form (sda6, sdb6, sdc6): /dev/sdc6: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : 342ec726:3804270d:5917dd5f:c24883a9 Name : TS-XLB6C:2 Creation Time : Fri Dec 23 17:58:59 2011 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 3 Avail Dev Size : 1923497952 (917.20 GiB 984.83 GB) Array Size : 1923496960 (1834.39 GiB 1969.66 GB) Used Dev Size : 1923496960 (917.19 GiB 984.83 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=1968 sectors, after=992 sectors State : active Device UUID : d27a69d0:456f3704:8e17ac75:78939886 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Wed Jul 27 19:08:08 2016 Checksum : de9dbd10 - correct Events : 11543 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 0 Array State : AAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) As all md superblocks were gone, i recreated it and got: /dev/mapper/sdb6: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : da61174d:9567c4df:fcea79f1:38024893 Name : grml:42 (local to host grml) Creation Time : Thu Sep 22 05:14:11 2016 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 3 Avail Dev Size : 1923497952 (917.20 GiB 984.83 GB) Array Size : 1923496960 (1834.39 GiB 1969.66 GB) Used Dev Size : 1923496960 (917.19 GiB 984.83 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=1960 sectors, after=992 sectors State : clean Device UUID : d0c61415:186b446b:ca34a8c6:69ed5b18 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Thu Sep 22 05:14:11 2016 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : bba25a31 - correct Events : 1 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 0 Now i tried xfs_repair on the raid but got: root@grml ~ # xfs_repair /dev/md42 Phase 1 - find and verify superblock... bad primary superblock - bad magic number !!! >> attempting to find secondary superblock... ........................................... found candidate secondary superblock... unable to verify superblock, continuing... found candidate secondary superblock... error reading superblock 22 -- seek to offset 2031216754688 failed unable to verify superblock, continuing... found candidate secondary superblock... unable to verify superblock, continuing... ..found candidate secondary superblock... verified secondary superblock... writing modified primary superblock - reporting progress in intervals of 15 minutes sb root inode value 18446744073709551615 (NULLFSINO) inconsistent with calculated value 2048 resetting superblock root inode pointer to 2048 sb realtime bitmap inode 18446744073709551615 (NULLFSINO) inconsistent with calculated value 2049 resetting superblock realtime bitmap ino pointer to 2049 sb realtime summary inode 18446744073709551615 (NULLFSINO) inconsistent with calculated value 2050 resetting superblock realtime summary ino pointer to 2050 Phase 2 - using internal log - zero log... totally zeroed log - scan filesystem freespace and inode maps... bad magic number bad magic number bad magic number Metadata corruption detected at block 0x8/0x1000 bad magic number Metadata corruption detected at block 0x23d3f408/0x1000 bad magic numberbad magic number >> Metadata corruption detected at block 0x2afe5808/0x1000 bad magic number bad magic number bad magic number bad magic number bad magic number bad magic number bad magic number bad magic number bad magic number bad magic number bad magic number bad magic number bad magic number Metadata corruption detected at block 0x10/0x1000 Metadata corruption detected at block 0xe54c808/0x1000 bad magic # 0x494e81f6 for agf 0 bad version # 16908289 for agf 0 bad sequence # 99 for agf 0 bad length 99 for agf 0, should be 15027328 flfirst 1301384768 in agf 0 too large (max = 1024) bad magic # 0x494e81f6 for agi 0 bad version # 16908289 for agi 0 bad sequence # 99 for agi 0 bad length # 99 for agi 0, should be 15027328 reset bad agf for ag 0 reset bad agi for ag 0 Metadata corruption detected at block 0xd6f7b808/0x1000 Metadata corruption detected at block 0x2afe5810/0x1000 bad on-disk superblock 6 - bad magic number primary/secondary superblock 6 conflict - AG superblock geometry info conflicts with filesystem geometry zeroing unused portion of secondary superblock (AG #6) [1] 23110 segmentation fault xfs_repair /dev/md42 But it ends with a segfault. How screwed am I? Am i even on the right track with the underlying raid? thank you. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html