Had a drive die last night in the middle of an e2fsck of my md0 array. Did a shutdown, and now when I try to bring up the array in degraded mode I get: md: bind<cobd4> md: bind<cobd5> md: bind<cobd6> md: bind<cobd8> md: bind<cobd3> md: md0: raid array is not clean -- starting background reconstruction raid5: device cobd3 operational as raid disk 0 raid5: device cobd8 operational as raid disk 5 raid5: device cobd6 operational as raid disk 3 raid5: device cobd5 operational as raid disk 2 raid5: device cobd4 operational as raid disk 1 raid5: cannot start dirty degraded array for md0 RAID5 conf printout: --- rd:6 wd:5 fd:1 disk 0, o:1, dev:cobd3 disk 1, o:1, dev:cobd4 disk 2, o:1, dev:cobd5 disk 3, o:1, dev:cobd6 disk 5, o:1, dev:cobd8 raid5: failed to run raid set md0 md: pers->run() failed ... Does the background reconstruction mean that it's doing something to fix the problem, or am I in a really bad place? If the latter, any suggestions on how I can recover my data? TIA, Ewan - 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
