On Wednesday April 28, mislam@uiuc.edu wrote: > > Error reading block 175767553 (Attempt to read block from filesystem > resulted in short read) while reading inode and block bitmaps. Ignore > error? yes ... > > What should I do at this point? > > I have the data backed up from yesterday. Should I replace the hdk and > hdl? Can I just do a remove from the linear raid and add the new disks? > Or I need to recreate the array. It certainly appears that hdk and hdl are bad. I suggest replacing them. You cannot just remove drives and add others. That only works for arrays that have redundancy, such as raid1, raid5, or raid6. Linear is just like a single driver, only bigger. If it fails you have to restore from backups. NeilBrown - 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
