> > > It is very odd that the backup file disappeared. What is > /.MEDIA/tmp > ?? Not a tmpfs filesystem I hope... No, a persistent filesystem on another disk -- with no autodelete scripts or anything. Very very weird that it disappeared. I saw it before I went to bed... was about 50MB if I recall. Unless the fsck at boot removed it -- but I would imagine you make sure you fsync that file to disk before you proceed? I think ./.MEDIA is ext4. > 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. As long as fsck can bring it back to a consistent state, I'm ok with that. But I would guess some file contents could be silently corrupt? -- 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
