Il giorno mar, 30/11/2010 alle 08.45 +1100, Neil Brown ha scritto: > > Yesterday evening I added another WD, this time an EARS > > (512 byte sectors): I created a partition on it, respecting the Just to be precise: 4K byte sector (my mistake). > Yes. > I think you can fix it by simply failing and removing sdc > Then md/raid5 will recover that data using the parity block, and that should > be correct. > It appears that the partition you created on the new device started at a > multiple of 64K. When this happen, the superblock at the end of the > partition also looks valid when seen at the end of the whole device. > Somehow mdadm got confused and choose the whole device (sdc) instead of the > partition (sdc1). I did it and it worked! Thanks a lot Neil!!! > I am surprised at this because since mdadm-2.5.1, mdadm will refuse to > assemble an array if it sees two devices that appear to have the same > superblock. Could you possibly be using something that old?? The distribution is Ubuntu Server 10.04, kernel 2.6.32-26-generic-pae, mdadm 2.6.7.1 Again many thanks Neil, you saved me! :) Cheers, -- Michele Bonera linux user group brescia -- 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
