Going for my RHCE in a few weeks... Always wondered: 1. Are there any gotchas in a corrupted software RAID filesystem? For example, /dev/md0 is an RAID1 MD device, and either the 1st superblock on /dev/md0 or maybe the underlying /dev/sda1 partition is zero'ed out. How does one go about fixing it? Will a simple fsck here work? But in the above case, is fsck run against md0 or sda1? 2. If one knows that /dev/md0 is in trouble (composed of /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1), but /dev/sda1 is fine, can one, upon boot, simply change LILO/GRUB from trying to mount root from /dev/md0 to /dev/sda1? My guess is no, since the disk label is different. 3. I also wonder about LVM (now with RedHat 8.0), but will ask an LVM list... A typical scnerario could be LVM sitting on top of MD, and have to recover from some kind of disaster. A co-worker just screwed up a system I suspect was setup with a combination of LVM and MD. I may have too quickly tried mounting /dev/sda2 (root on on disk), and maybe should have tried mounting /dev/md0. After trying to mount /dev/sda2 (with an raid autodetect type), I think mount complained about invalid options, so I proceeded to do an fsck on /dev/sda2, only to have mention something about the superblock (yes, I should write all the errors down), so I tried fsck on something like 32768, and it started up... And ran... And ran. Result aftewards: all /dev/sda2 contains now after an attempt to mount it is "lost+found"! :( Marco - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
