On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 05:52:57PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > On Wednesday January 9, cat@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > I'd provide data dumps of --examine and friends but I'm in a situation > > where transferring the data would be a right pain. I'll do it if need > > be, though. > > > > So, what can I do? > > Well, providing the output of "--examine" would help a lot. Here's the output of the 3 remaining drives, the array and mdstat. /proc/mdstat: Personalities : [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] ... md3 : inactive sdf1[0] sde1[2] sdd1[1] 1465151808 blocks ... unused devices: <none> /dev/md3: Version : 00.90.03 Creation Time : Thu Aug 30 15:50:01 2007 Raid Level : raid5 Device Size : 488383936 (465.76 GiB 500.11 GB) Raid Devices : 4 Total Devices : 3 Preferred Minor : 3 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Thu Jan 3 08:51:00 2008 State : active, degraded Active Devices : 3 Working Devices : 3 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K UUID : f60a1be0:5a10f35f:164afef4:10240419 Events : 0.45649 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 81 0 active sync /dev/sdf1 1 8 49 1 active sync /dev/sdd1 2 8 65 2 active sync /dev/sde1 3 0 0 - removed /dev/sdd1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 00.90.03 UUID : f60a1be0:5a10f35f:164afef4:10240419 Creation Time : Thu Aug 30 15:50:01 2007 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 4 Total Devices : 4 Preferred Minor : 3 Update Time : Thu Jan 3 08:51:00 2008 State : active Active Devices : 4 Working Devices : 4 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : cb259d08 - correct Events : 0.45649 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 1 8 49 1 active sync /dev/sdd1 0 0 8 81 0 active sync /dev/sdf1 1 1 8 49 1 active sync /dev/sdd1 2 2 8 65 2 active sync /dev/sde1 3 3 8 33 3 active sync /dev/sdc1 /dev/sde1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 00.90.03 UUID : f60a1be0:5a10f35f:164afef4:10240419 Creation Time : Thu Aug 30 15:50:01 2007 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 4 Total Devices : 4 Preferred Minor : 3 Update Time : Thu Jan 3 08:51:00 2008 State : active Active Devices : 4 Working Devices : 4 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : cb259d1a - correct Events : 0.45649 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 2 8 65 2 active sync /dev/sde1 0 0 8 81 0 active sync /dev/sdf1 1 1 8 49 1 active sync /dev/sdd1 2 2 8 65 2 active sync /dev/sde1 3 3 8 33 3 active sync /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdf1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 00.90.03 UUID : f60a1be0:5a10f35f:164afef4:10240419 Creation Time : Thu Aug 30 15:50:01 2007 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 4 Total Devices : 4 Preferred Minor : 3 Update Time : Thu Jan 3 08:51:00 2008 State : active Active Devices : 4 Working Devices : 4 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : cb259d26 - correct Events : 0.45649 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 0 8 81 0 active sync /dev/sdf1 0 0 8 81 0 active sync /dev/sdf1 1 1 8 49 1 active sync /dev/sdd1 2 2 8 65 2 active sync /dev/sde1 3 3 8 33 3 active sync /dev/sdc1 > But I suspect that "--assemble --force" would do the right thing. > Without more details, it is hard to say for sure. I suspect so aswell but throwing caution into the wind erks me wrt this raid array. :) -- "To the extent that we overreact, we proffer the terrorists the greatest tribute." - High Court Judge Michael Kirby - 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