Hi there,
I have a problem with one of my RAIDs that has dropped out.
There are 15 drives in my RAID6 structure [/dev/md10]. mdadm kicked out
three of the drives /dev/sd[jkl]1, and marked them as dirty in dmesg
[shown at startup].
No problems, so I check out the drives using mdadm --examine /dev/sdj1
/dev/sdk1 /dev/sdl1. Sure enough all of the drives are shown.
All seem to have the same magic number; and all look clean. I am now
scratching my head a little. I stop the array using mdadm --stop
/dev/md10 and then try and an assemble using mdadm --assemble /dev/md10
/dev/sd[c-q]1 - thats 15 drives, but the system says that it can only
start 12 drives in the array - not enough devices.
Trying to get these three drives into /dev/md10 says that the drives are
not valid raid devices.
I have done an fdisk -l /dev/sd[jkl]1 to display the drives - they are
sure enough autoraid partitions, and seem to be recognised correctly.
fdisk output:
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sdj'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.
Disk /dev/sdj: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdj1 1 182402 1465138583+ fd Linux raid autodetect
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sdk'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.
Disk /dev/sdk: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdk1 1 182402 1465138583+ fd Linux raid autodetect
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sdl'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.
Disk /dev/sdl: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdl1 1 182402 1465138583+ fd Linux raid autodetect
mdadm --examine output of the three effected drives
mdadm --examine /dev/sd[jkl]1
/dev/sdj1:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 0.90.00
UUID : 889b595b:90133fa5:8f7588d4:1fb63874
Creation Time : Fri Feb 5 18:15:53 2010
Raid Level : raid6
Used Dev Size : 1465138496 (1397.26 GiB 1500.30 GB)
Array Size : 19046800448 (18164.44 GiB 19503.92 GB)
Raid Devices : 15
Total Devices : 15
Preferred Minor : 10
Update Time : Wed Apr 28 13:13:39 2010
State : active
Active Devices : 15
Working Devices : 15
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Checksum : 5f9f7818 - correct
Events : 10
Chunk Size : 64K
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
this 7 8 145 7 active sync /dev/sdj1
0 0 8 33 0 active sync /dev/sdc1
1 1 8 49 1 active sync /dev/sdd1
2 2 8 65 2 active sync /dev/sde1
3 3 8 81 3 active sync /dev/sdf1
4 4 8 97 4 active sync /dev/sdg1
5 5 8 113 5 active sync /dev/sdh1
6 6 8 129 6 active sync /dev/sdi1
7 7 8 145 7 active sync /dev/sdj1
8 8 8 161 8 active sync /dev/sdk1
9 9 8 177 9 active sync /dev/sdl1
10 10 8 193 10 active sync /dev/sdm1
11 11 8 209 11 active sync /dev/sdn1
12 12 8 225 12 active sync /dev/sdo1
13 13 8 241 13 active sync /dev/sdp1
14 14 65 1 14 active sync /dev/sdq1
/dev/sdk1:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 0.90.00
UUID : 889b595b:90133fa5:8f7588d4:1fb63874
Creation Time : Fri Feb 5 18:15:53 2010
Raid Level : raid6
Used Dev Size : 1465138496 (1397.26 GiB 1500.30 GB)
Array Size : 19046800448 (18164.44 GiB 19503.92 GB)
Raid Devices : 15
Total Devices : 15
Preferred Minor : 10
Update Time : Wed Apr 28 13:13:39 2010
State : active
Active Devices : 15
Working Devices : 15
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Checksum : 5f9f782a - correct
Events : 10
Chunk Size : 64K
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
this 8 8 161 8 active sync /dev/sdk1
0 0 8 33 0 active sync /dev/sdc1
1 1 8 49 1 active sync /dev/sdd1
2 2 8 65 2 active sync /dev/sde1
3 3 8 81 3 active sync /dev/sdf1
4 4 8 97 4 active sync /dev/sdg1
5 5 8 113 5 active sync /dev/sdh1
6 6 8 129 6 active sync /dev/sdi1
7 7 8 145 7 active sync /dev/sdj1
8 8 8 161 8 active sync /dev/sdk1
9 9 8 177 9 active sync /dev/sdl1
10 10 8 193 10 active sync /dev/sdm1
11 11 8 209 11 active sync /dev/sdn1
12 12 8 225 12 active sync /dev/sdo1
13 13 8 241 13 active sync /dev/sdp1
14 14 65 1 14 active sync /dev/sdq1
/dev/sdl1:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 0.90.00
UUID : 889b595b:90133fa5:8f7588d4:1fb63874
Creation Time : Fri Feb 5 18:15:53 2010
Raid Level : raid6
Used Dev Size : 1465138496 (1397.26 GiB 1500.30 GB)
Array Size : 19046800448 (18164.44 GiB 19503.92 GB)
Raid Devices : 15
Total Devices : 15
Preferred Minor : 10
Update Time : Wed Apr 28 13:13:39 2010
State : active
Active Devices : 15
Working Devices : 15
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Checksum : 5f9f783c - correct
Events : 10
Chunk Size : 64K
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
this 9 8 177 9 active sync /dev/sdl1
0 0 8 33 0 active sync /dev/sdc1
1 1 8 49 1 active sync /dev/sdd1
2 2 8 65 2 active sync /dev/sde1
3 3 8 81 3 active sync /dev/sdf1
4 4 8 97 4 active sync /dev/sdg1
5 5 8 113 5 active sync /dev/sdh1
6 6 8 129 6 active sync /dev/sdi1
7 7 8 145 7 active sync /dev/sdj1
8 8 8 161 8 active sync /dev/sdk1
9 9 8 177 9 active sync /dev/sdl1
10 10 8 193 10 active sync /dev/sdm1
11 11 8 209 11 active sync /dev/sdn1
12 12 8 225 12 active sync /dev/sdo1
13 13 8 241 13 active sync /dev/sdp1
14 14 65 1 14 active sync /dev/sdq1
Trying to get the /dev/md10 to start again - not a valid superblock.
Could somebody please point me the right direction to try and make drive
/dev/sdj1 /dev/sdk1 /dev/sdl1 not dirty. Trying to assemble with -A
--force doesn't seem to cut the mustard either.
Thanks
Max
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