---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Erik Boettcher <tehfoo@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 1:04 PM Subject: Re: Raid 5 Recovery To: Dylan Distasio <interzone@xxxxxxxxx> On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Erik Boettcher <tehfoo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Dylan Distasio <interzone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Have you tried assembling the array degraded to see if you can force >> it without sdd3? I don't know if this is the best solution, but if >> that works, you can then readd sdd3 and have the array rebuild. > > I tried forcing the assembly without sdd3, and it complains about sde3! > > I find it interesting that before the first command sdc3 failed but > now it's not the fault point.... > I guess I should specify how it complains: the exact same error message but sde3 instead. mack ~ # mdadm -A --force --no-degraded /dev/md0 /dev/sd{a,b,c,e}3 mdadm: superblock on /dev/sde3 doesn't match others - assembly aborted eek, and I tried with the first 3 hdds and got this: mack ~ # mdadm -A --force --no-degraded /dev/md0 /dev/sd{a,b,c}3 mdadm: clearing FAULTY flag for device 2 in /dev/md0 for /dev/sdc3 mdadm: clearing FAULTY flag for device 1 in /dev/md0 for /dev/sdb3 mdadm: clearing FAULTY flag for device 0 in /dev/md0 for /dev/sda3 mdadm: failed to add /dev/sdb3 to /dev/md0: Invalid argument mdadm: failed to add /dev/sda3 to /dev/md0: Invalid argument mdadm: failed to add /dev/sdc3 to /dev/md0: Invalid argument mdadm: /dev/md0 assembled from 0 drives (out of 5), but not started. -- 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