Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> Ar you sure your / is actualy /dev/md2? Maybe you booted from
>> /dev/sda3 or /dev/sdc3? I recommend booting a rescue/life CD and
>> then look for a partition containing an active drive for md2 so you
>> can rebuild your raid.
>>
> pretty sure - there's a physical LVM volume defined on top of
> /dev/md2, and / is a LV defined on top of that - the machine comes up
> and runs
The lvm can just as easily run of sda3 or sdc3 if it does not check
for the raid signature (option in lvm.conf). Since it is a raid1 that
totaly works. Since you can boot your data seems to be still there,
somewhere. Just not in the raid.
>> Also did you know that you can run a raid1 with 3 active drives? That
>> way you are potected against 2 drive failures and don't need to wait
>> for the spare drive to resync before having fault tolerance if one
>> drive fails.
>>
>>
> Can you elaborate on how to do that, particularly how to add a new
> active volume to an existing array? It seems like mdadm wants to add
> new disks as spares.
mdadm --add /dev/md2 /dev/new/disk
mdadm --grow -n 3 /dev/md2
MfG
Goswin
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