On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:46:32 -0700 Rich Rauenzahn <rrauenza@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Rich Rauenzahn <rrauenza@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The system froze sometime in the middle of the night, and oddly... the > > --backup-file I specified last night is missing. Is there any reason > > that mdadm would unlink it for a short span of time during the > > reshape? > > I'm at the point now where I'm just looking for triage advice so I can > work on it tonight. Most of the contents were backed up offsite, but a > little bit out of date. Nothing critical, but inconvenient, like > recovery images for relative's systems. > > Do I kill it and start over, or is there any hope of recovering from > the reshape? It is very odd that the backup file disappeared. What is /.MEDIA/tmp ?? Not a tmpfs filesystem I hope... You could hack mdadm to assemble the array even without a backup file. Get 'Grow_restart' to always return 0. Then most of your data should be assessible, but the could be a section in the middle which is currupt. NeilBrown -- 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
