On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 04:25:02PM +0000, Kristleifur Daðason wrote: > On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:19 AM, Keld Simonsen <keld@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 03:57:58AM +0100, Keld Simonsen wrote: > > Hi > > > > > > can anybody help me with this? I am stuck with recovering my system here. > > is it a sensible thing ro do? > > > > best regards > > keld > > > >> Hi > >> > >> I got 2 arrays in error of the raid10 type. > >> > >> I think this is because my motherboard died, and then the fs were > >> corrupted. > >> > >> My thoughts were that actually one of the copies could be correct. > >> So I would like to try out the consistency of each part of the raid10 > >> (it is 2-partition arrays), and then if I find one that is consistent, then > >> resync the faulty one with the good one. > >> > >> How do I do this? > >> > >> it seems that I cannot just assemble an array with a missing part. > >> If I assemble the full array, is there then a risk of the bad one > >> corrupting the good one? And can I declare one of the disks faulty > >> then test the other one, then declare nbr 2 disk for faulty and > >> declare the first one as good? > >> > >> I dont see anything on the wiki on this. > >> > >> best regards > >> keld > > -- > > 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 > > > > > I wish I could help more, but check out this from the mdadm man page: > > To create a "degraded" array in which some devices are missing, > simply give > the word "missing" in place of a device name. This will > cause mdadm to > leave the corresponding slot in the array empty. For a > RAID4 or RAID5 > array at most one slot can be "missing"; for a RAID6 array > at most two > slots. For a RAID1 array, only one real device needs to be > given. All of > the others can be "missing". I tried missing, but mdadm said that it could not find missing as a device, for assemble mode. best regards keld -- 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
