On Friday April 13, chris@xxxxxxx wrote: > Dear All, > > I have an 8-drive raid-5 array running under 2.6.11. This morning it > bombed out, and when I brought > it up again, two drives had incorrect event counts: > > > sda1: 0.8258715 > sdb1: 0.8258715 > sdc1: 0.8258715 > sdd1: 0.8258715 > sde1: 0.8258715 > sdf1: 0.8258715 > sdg1: 0.8258708 > sdh1: 0.8258716 > > > sdg1 is out of date (expected), but sdh1 has received an extra event. > > Any attempt to restart with mdadm --assemble --force, results in an an > un-startable array with an event count of 0.8258715. > > Can anybody advise on the correct command to use to get it started again? > I'm assuming I'll need to use mdadm --create --assume-clean - but I'm > not sure > which drives should be included/excluded when I do this. A difference of 1 in event counts is not supposed to cause a problem. Have you tried simply assembling the array without including sdg1. e.g. mdadm -A /dev/md0 /dev/sd[abcdefh]1 ?? 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
