Hi, I have a little problem:
Some hours ago the second of four disks were kicked out of my RAID5 thus rendering it unusable. As of my current knowledge, the disks are still working correctly (I assume a cable connection problem) but that's not the problem. The real problem is, that the first failed disk has an event value of 9102893, the second failed disk has a value of 9324862 and the other two disks have a value of 9324869. In this case, what is the best to do to recover the RAID? Because just recreating the array with the 9324862-disk and the two 9324869-disks and later hotadding the 9102893-disk, is just unclean and as I understood it, this would trigger some silent data failures. Is there a chance to prevent this data failures to happen at all, or is it at least possible to tell, where this error(s) are (so I can manually check the data and take appropriate steps)? Remember that I still have the data from the first failed disk, from which parts may still be relatively up to date.
Has anyone had this problem already and found a nice solution for this?
Regards in advance, Bodo
mdadm -E on all affected disks:
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/dev/mapper/sda:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 00.90.03
UUID : 876ed759:74a31656:94332345:a976171b
Creation Time : Thu Feb 2 05:30:53 2006
Raid Level : raid5
Device Size : 244198464 (232.89 GiB 250.06 GB)
Array Size : 732595392 (698.66 GiB 750.18 GB)
Raid Devices : 4
Total Devices : 4
Preferred Minor : 0
Update Time : Wed Nov 29 03:12:12 2006
State : clean
Active Devices : 4
Working Devices : 4
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Checksum : 7bd96cb9 - correct
Events : 0.9102893
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 32K
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
this 1 253 0 1 active sync /dev/mapper/sda
0 0 253 2 0 active sync /dev/mapper/sdc
1 1 253 0 1 active sync /dev/mapper/sda
2 2 253 1 2 active sync /dev/mapper/sdb
3 3 253 3 3 active sync /dev/mapper/sdd
/dev/mapper/sdb:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 00.90.03
UUID : 876ed759:74a31656:94332345:a976171b
Creation Time : Thu Feb 2 05:30:53 2006
Raid Level : raid5
Device Size : 244198464 (232.89 GiB 250.06 GB)
Array Size : 732595392 (698.66 GiB 750.18 GB)
Raid Devices : 4
Total Devices : 4
Preferred Minor : 0
Update Time : Tue Dec 5 04:31:06 2006
State : clean
Active Devices : 3
Working Devices : 3
Failed Devices : 2
Spare Devices : 0
Checksum : 7be82e68 - correct
Events : 0.9324862
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 32K
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
this 2 253 1 2 active sync /dev/mapper/sdb
0 0 253 2 0 active sync /dev/mapper/sdc
1 1 0 0 1 faulty removed
2 2 253 1 2 active sync /dev/mapper/sdb
3 3 253 3 3 active sync /dev/mapper/sdd
/dev/mapper/sdc:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 00.90.03
UUID : 876ed759:74a31656:94332345:a976171b
Creation Time : Thu Feb 2 05:30:53 2006
Raid Level : raid5
Device Size : 244198464 (232.89 GiB 250.06 GB)
Array Size : 732595392 (698.66 GiB 750.18 GB)
Raid Devices : 4
Total Devices : 4
Preferred Minor : 0
Update Time : Tue Dec 5 04:45:20 2006
State : clean
Active Devices : 2
Working Devices : 2
Failed Devices : 4
Spare Devices : 0
Checksum : 7be831d7 - correct
Events : 0.9324869
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 32K
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
this 0 253 2 0 active sync /dev/mapper/sdc
0 0 253 2 0 active sync /dev/mapper/sdc
1 1 0 0 1 faulty removed
2 2 0 0 2 faulty removed
3 3 253 3 3 active sync /dev/mapper/sdd
/dev/mapper/sdd:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 00.90.03
UUID : 876ed759:74a31656:94332345:a976171b
Creation Time : Thu Feb 2 05:30:53 2006
Raid Level : raid5
Device Size : 244198464 (232.89 GiB 250.06 GB)
Array Size : 732595392 (698.66 GiB 750.18 GB)
Raid Devices : 4
Total Devices : 4
Preferred Minor : 0
Update Time : Tue Dec 5 04:45:20 2006
State : clean
Active Devices : 2
Working Devices : 2
Failed Devices : 4
Spare Devices : 0
Checksum : 7be831de - correct
Events : 0.9324869
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 32K
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
this 3 253 3 3 active sync /dev/mapper/sdd
0 0 253 2 0 active sync /dev/mapper/sdc
1 1 0 0 1 faulty removed
2 2 0 0 2 faulty removed
3 3 253 3 3 active sync /dev/mapper/sdd
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