On Friday September 2, dstrang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Neil Brown wrote: > > On Friday September 2, dstrang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > > > Does this mean I'm going to loose all my data? > > > > > > > No. > > At least, you shouldn't, and doing the --create won't make anything > > worse. > > > > So do the --create with the 'missing', and don't add any spares. > > Do a 'fsck' or whatever to check that everything is OK. > > > > If it isn't, we'll have to look again at exactly what happened and > > figure out which disks we should have created into the array. > > -(root@abyss)-(~)- # mdadm -C /dev/md0 -l5 -n28 -c 128 --name=md/md0 -p la > /dev/sd[a-l] missing /dev/sd[n-z] /dev/sda[ab] > mdadm: invalid number of raid devices: 28 Sorry. Add -e 1 > > I'm using mdadm 2.0 now --- should I try 2.0-devel-3 ? No. -devel-3 should not be used anymore. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
