Hi!
I do RAID-recoveries at least once a month and get paid for it. Rule of
thumb: if your have one drive dropped and another one with pending
sectors, your rebuild will fail - no need for calculations there.
ddrescue on a clean disk is about half as fast as dd with a blocksize
beyond 1M. ddrescue on a disk with pending sectors is just no pita as
dd or sg_dd would be, because it adds the neccesary intelligence.
Do you have the original sde still around? If yes, ddrescue both: sdb
and sde. My experience says: there will only be a few KB lost. Then
re-create your raid (it will only write the superblock new) with
"--assume-clean". After that worked, you might make another (big)
backup first, then run fsck and see what happens. If the lost bytes
have screwed the filesystem, you might want to re-create the raid with
another (personally I prefer xfs) fs and replay your backup into it.
A few commands to make the intentions cleaner:
ddrescue -dv -r5 /dev/oldsdb1 /dev/newsdb1 /root/sdblog
ddrescue -dv -r5 /dev/oldsde1 /dev/newsde1 /root/sdelog
... find out which drive is which raid-device -> mdadm -E /dev/sdX1
mdadm --create /dev/md0 --raid-devices=4 --level=5
--chunk=${your_chunk_size_in_kb} --assume-clean
${ordered_list_of_raid_devices}
Hope this helps,
Stefan Hübner
Am 09.02.2010 05:20, schrieb Dawning Sky:
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Dawning Sky <the.dawning.sky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Now I have two faulty drives and things don't look good. However, I
>> was able to add the sdb back to the array and md seemed not mind and
>> still reported "active sync". At this point I shut down computer and
>> decided to clone sdb with clonezilla so that I can have a good sdb to
>> finish rebuilding sde. Not sure if it will complete without I/O
>> errors. It appears clonezilla is using dd and the speed is extremely
>> slow (~5MB/sec) and it says it's gonna take 1 day to clone the 500GB.
>>
>>
> As expected, dd encountered the same UNC error. Now I'm trying to
> ddrescue the drive to see what happens. My question is whether this
> is worth doing. Assuming ddrescue cannot read the bad sector either
> and writes 0's to the new drive, will I be able to rebuild the raid-5,
> from 2 good disks and this disk with a bad sector? I can assume there
> will be a bad file but will the array still function?
>
> Or I'm better off just build a new array from scratch.
>
> Any suggestions are appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> DS
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