David Lethe (david@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote on 21 April 2008 22:54: >No, just assemble with --force. > > >The other idea I have in mind is to - after a backup - recreate the > >array using the initial configuration (raid-level 5, num-devices 3, > >etc), and hope that the array can pick itself up again. > > > >Any thoughts much appreciated - thanks for helping out :) > >This is the last alternative, when you're sure the 2 disks are fine. >Then just re-create the array replacing the /dev/3rd-drive by the >word "missing". This won't change the data, it'll just re-write the >superblocks. Then do read-only fsck >======= > >I would go pick up a few extra disks, boot to a CDROM >LINUX image, and make raw block copies of the disks on the RAID and Yes, that's what I said in the first msg. >then try to reconstruct with the copies of the data. Of course, if the originals have problems reconstruction will probably abort again... -- 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
