Hi everybody, I have a slight problem here with my RAID 1+0 setup. One of the discs just failed and I'm unable to figure out why (for example) mdadm is unable to start the particular RAID1 (/dev/md4-submirror, failed disc is /dev/sdd). The setup is this: ------- /etc/raidtab ----------------------------------- ## ## Data-Disk - Part 1 ## raiddev /dev/md3 raid-level 1 nr-raid-disks 2 nr-spare-disks 0 persistent-superblock 1 ## device /dev/hdk2 device /dev/hde2 raid-disk 0 ## device /dev/hdm2 device /dev/hdg2 raid-disk 1 ## failed-disk 1 ## ## Data-Disk - Part 2 ## raiddev /dev/md4 raid-level 1 nr-raid-disks 2 nr-spare-disks 0 persistent-superblock 1 ## device /dev/hdi2 device /dev/sdd2 raid-disk 0 ## failed-disk 1 ## device /dev/hdg2 device /dev/sdc2 raid-disk 1 ## failed-disk 1 ## ## Data-Disk - Raid 1+0 ## raiddev /dev/md5 raid-level 0 nr-raid-disks 2 nr-spare-disks 0 persistent-superblock 1 chunk-size 32 device /dev/md3 raid-disk 0 device /dev/md4 raid-disk 1 -------------------------------------------------------------- mdadm --detail /dev/md3 /dev/md3: Version : 00.90.00 Creation Time : Mon Sep 16 23:33:02 2002 Raid Level : raid1 Array Size : 58616640 (55.90 GiB 60.02 GB) Device Size : 58616640 (55.90 GiB 60.02 GB) Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 2 Preferred Minor : 3 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Fri Sep 26 08:06:35 2003 State : dirty, no-errors Active Devices : 1 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 1 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 0 0 0 faulty removed /dev/swap 1 33 2 1 active sync /dev/hde2 2 34 2 2 spare /dev/hdg2 UUID : fb702fa9:a4c55dcf:87cccecb:31f1e9ba Events : 0.465 mdadm --examine /dev/sdc2 /dev/sdc2: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 00.90.00 UUID : d5c2d1f7:cf7cb245:2d9e7057:097ec133 Creation Time : Mon Sep 16 22:05:35 2002 Raid Level : raid1 Device Size : 60034880 (57.25 GiB 61.48 GB) Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 2 Preferred Minor : 4 Update Time : Thu Mar 13 05:03:45 2003 State : dirty, no-errors Active Devices : 1 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 1 Checksum : 512475a - correct Events : 0.423 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 2 8 50 2 spare /dev/sdd2 0 0 0 0 0 faulty removed /dev/swap 1 1 8 34 1 active sync /dev/sdc2 2 2 8 50 2 spare /dev/sdd2 ------------------------------------------------------- >mdadm -v -R /dev/md4 mdadm: failed to run array /dev/md4: No such device The problem occurred while resynccing the /dev/md4 RAID1-mirror and of course the "master" device was the faulty one. The question now is, is someone capable of describing how to get this /dev/md4-mirror started so that I can continue copying data out of RAID1+0 (dev/md5) mirror ? Regards, Tomi Orava - 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