On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Wolfgang Denk <wd@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear Mike Hartman, > > In message <AANLkTim9TnyTGMWnRr65SrmJDrLN=Maua_QnVLLDerwS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote: >> This is unrelated to my other RAID thread, but I discovered this issue >> when I was forced to hard restart due to the other one. >> >> My main raid (md0) is a RAID 5 composite that looks like this: >> >> - partition on hard drive A (1.5TB) >> - partition on hard drive B (1.5TB) >> - partition on hard drive C (1.5TB) >> - partition on RAID 1 (md1) (1.5TB) > > I guess this is a typo and you mean RAID 0 ? > >> md1 is a RAID 0 used to combine two 750GB drives I already had so that > > ...as used here? > Definitely, sorry about that. >> Detecting md0. Can't start md0 because it's missing a component (md1) >> and thus wouldn't be in a clean state. >> Detecting md1. md1 started. >> Then I use mdadm to stop md0 and restart it (mdadm --assemble md0), >> which works fine at that point because md1 is up. > > Did you try changing your configurations uch that md0 is the RAID 0 > and md1 is the RAID 5 array? > That's the kind of simple solution I had in mind, I just have no idea how to do it. The arrays are already created and I don't have enough space to back up all the data elsewhere (I know - *cringe*). Is there a way to do that swap "in place"? I created everything by following the current directions in the Linux RAID wiki and I didn't see anything there about specifying the device name or anything like that. > Best regards, > > Wolfgang Denk > > -- > DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel > HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany > Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@xxxxxxx > If today is the first day of the rest of your life, what the hell was > yesterday? > -- 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
