On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Neil Brown wrote:
1/ I think you are hitting and mdadm bug in "--assemble --force" that was
fixed in 2.6.8. (git commit 4e9a6ff778cdc58dc).
Thanks, I'll try to upgrade mdadm.
Yes, that solved the problem. Thanks a bunch!
root@ub:~/mdadm-3.1.1# ./mdadm --assemble /dev/md0
mdadm: /dev/md0 assembled from 5 drives - not enough to start the array
while not clean - consider --force.
root@ub:~/mdadm-3.1.1# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5]
[raid4] [raid10]
md0 : inactive sdd[0](S) sdf[7](S) sde[8](S) sdc[4](S) sdb[2](S) sdg[6](S)
11721086688 blocks super 1.2
unused devices: <none>
root@ub:~/mdadm-3.1.1# ./mdadm --stop /dev/md0
mdadm: stopped /dev/md0
root@ub:~/mdadm-3.1.1# ./mdadm --assemble --force /dev/md0
mdadm: /dev/md0 has been started with 5 drives (out of 6).
root@ub:~/mdadm-3.1.1# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5]
[raid4] [raid10]
md0 : active raid5 sde[8] sdd[0] sdf[7] sdc[4] sdb[2] sdg[6]
9767572160 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [6/5] [UUUU_U]
[>....................] recovery = 0.2% (5726592/1953514432) finish=468.1min speed=69341K/sec
unused devices: <none>
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