On Mon, December 29, 2008 5:13 am, Erik Boettcher wrote: > ---------- 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. Yes, specifics are good. I'm afraid I need a few more though. mdadm -Esvvv and dmesg | tail -20 after the failed --assemble attempt would be a good start. NeilBrown > > 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 > -- 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