On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Neil Brown wrote: > On Wednesday July 10, danci@agenda.si wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Neil Brown wrote: > > > > > mdadm --assemble --force /dev/md1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdc2 > > > > > > Then it will have to use a2 and c2. > > > > I tried that, but it refused to do it (something about 2/3 drives > > failed)!? Maybe my mdadm version is old (v1.0.0)? > > Hmmm. Should work, but might need a "--run" as well... > > Can you get me an exact error message, and maybe the output of > mdadm --examine /dev/sd[abc]2 > > NeilBrown > OK, it's all attached. One file contains results of mdadm --examine, the other is what I get on the screen with mdadm --assemble (w/wo --run)... D.
[root@lmq MDADM]# mdadm --assemble --force /dev/md1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdc2 md: md1 stopped. md: unbind<sdc2,0> md: export_rdev(sdc2) [events: 00000058] md: bind<sdc2,1> mdadm: /dev/md1 assembled from 1 drive - not enough to start it (use --run to insist). [root@lmq MDADM]# mdadm --assemble --force /dev/md1 --run /dev/sda2 /dev/sdc2 md: md1 stopped. md: unbind<sdc2,0> md: export_rdev(sdc2) [events: 00000058] md: bind<sdc2,1> md: sdc2's event counter: 00000058 md1: removing former faulty sdb2! md1: max total readahead window set to 496k md1: 2 data-disks, max readahead per data-disk: 248k raid5: device sdc2 operational as raid disk 1 raid5: not enough operational devices for md1 (2/3 failed) RAID5 conf printout: --- rd:3 wd:1 fd:2 disk 0, s:0, o:0, n:0 rd:0 us:1 dev:[dev 00:00] disk 1, s:0, o:1, n:1 rd:1 us:1 dev:sdc2 disk 2, s:0, o:0, n:2 rd:2 us:1 dev:[dev 00:00] raid5: failed to run raid set md1 md: pers->run() failed ... md: md1 stopped. md: unbind<sdc2,0> md: export_rdev(sdc2) mdadm: failed to RUN_ARRAY /dev/md1: Invalid argument
/dev/sda2: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 00.90.00 UUID : d1b50184:535ff73c:48dba5c1:e94fc70e Creation Time : Mon Jul 16 13:53:51 2001 Raid Level : raid5 Device Size : 17623232 (16.80 GiB 18.04 GB) Raid Devices : 3 Total Devices : 4 Preferred Minor : 1 Update Time : Wed Jul 10 15:18:37 2002 State : dirty, no-errors Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 3 Failed Devices : 1 Spare Devices : 1 Checksum : 79f828e5 - correct Events : 0.82 Layout : left-asymmetric Chunk Size : 32K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 3 8 2 3 /dev/sda2 0 0 8 18 0 active sync /dev/sdb2 1 1 8 34 1 active sync /dev/sdc2 2 2 0 0 2 faulty removed 3 3 8 2 3 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 00.90.00 UUID : d1b50184:535ff73c:48dba5c1:e94fc70e Creation Time : Mon Jul 16 13:53:51 2001 Raid Level : raid5 Device Size : 17623232 (16.80 GiB 18.04 GB) Raid Devices : 3 Total Devices : 3 Preferred Minor : 1 Update Time : Wed Jul 10 15:36:39 2002 State : dirty, no-errors Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : 1 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : 79f82d2f - correct Events : 0.86 Layout : left-asymmetric Chunk Size : 32K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 0 8 18 0 active sync /dev/sdb2 0 0 8 18 0 active sync /dev/sdb2 1 1 8 34 1 active sync /dev/sdc2 2 2 0 0 2 faulty removed /dev/sdc2: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 00.90.00 UUID : d1b50184:535ff73c:48dba5c1:e94fc70e Creation Time : Mon Jul 16 13:53:51 2001 Raid Level : raid5 Device Size : 17623232 (16.80 GiB 18.04 GB) Raid Devices : 3 Total Devices : 3 Preferred Minor : 1 Update Time : Wed Jul 10 16:08:35 2002 State : clean, no-errors Active Devices : 1 Working Devices : 1 Failed Devices : 2 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : 79f834ba - correct Events : 0.88 Layout : left-asymmetric Chunk Size : 32K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 1 8 34 1 active sync /dev/sdc2 0 0 8 18 0 faulty /dev/sdb2 1 1 8 34 1 active sync /dev/sdc2 2 2 0 0 2 faulty removed