-----Original Message----- From: linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cry Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 10:32 AM To: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Two Drive Failure on RAID-5 David Greaves <david <at> dgreaves.com> writes: > > Yep. Don't panic and don't do anything else yet if you're not confident about > what you're doing. > > I'll follow up with more info in a short while. > > Info you can provide: > kernel version > mdadm version > cat /proc/mdstat > mdadm --examine /dev/sd[abcdef]1 (or whatever your array components are) > relevant smartctl info on the bad drive(s) > dmesg info about the drive failures > > Assuming genuine hardware failure: > Do you have any spare drives that you can use to replace the components? > > David Thanks for the info. I was able to do a --force --assemble on the array and I copied off my most critical data. At the moment, I don't have enough drives to take all the data on the array, so I'm going to be at a bit of a standstill until new hardware arrives. Since the copy of that data (about 500Gig of about 2TB) went so well, I decided to try to sync up the spare again and it died at the same point and the raid system pulled down the array. I'm trying to decide if I should follow your suggestion in sister post to copy the failed drive onto my spare or if I should just format the spare and try to recover another 500 gig of data of the array. Is there a mdadm or other command to tell the raid system to stay up in the face of errors? Can the array be assembled in a way that doesn't change the array in any way (completely read-only)? I've got the older failed drive also (about 15 hours older). Can that be leveraged also? The server isn't networked right now, but I'll try to get the above requested logs tonight. By the way, I'm thinking about buying five of these: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB ST31000340AS SATA-II 32MB Cache and one of these: Supermicro SUPERMICRO CSE-M35T-1 Hot-Swapable SATA HDD Enclosure http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/mobilerack/CSE-M35T-1.cfm and building a raid-6 array. I'll convert the surviving drives into a backup for the primary array. Any feedback on the above? Is there a suggestion on an inexpensive controller to give more SATA ports that is very software raid compatible? Any suggestions for optimal configuration (ext3) and tuning for the new array? My load consists of serving a photo gallery via apache and gallery2 as well as a local media (audio/video) server so files sizes tend to be large. Thanks, Joel =============== Joel: Respectfully .. are you nuts??? Don't buy the 7200.11 disks. You bought a bunch of desktop class drives, and they crapped out on you, and you are about to make the same mistake again. Get the server class disk that is designed to run 24x7 duty cycle, which in your case would be the 'cuda ES.2 Sorry about the soapbox, but it never ceases to amaze me how people try to save by buying disk drives architected with lowest possible cost in mind, and don't investigate the higher-quality disks that are designed for extended reliability and data integrity. David -- 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
