> -----Original Message----- > From: Majed B. [mailto:majedb@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 10:27 PM > To: lrhorer@xxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Degraded Array > > You have a degraded array now with 1 disk down. If you proceed, more > disks might pop out due to errors. Well, sort of. A significant fraction of the data is now striped across 12 + 0 drives, rather than 11 + 1. There are no errors occurring on the drives, although of course an unrecoverable error could happen at any time. > It's best to backup your data, run a check on the array, fix it then The data is backed up. Except in extreme circumstances, I would never start a re-shape without a current backup. > run a check on the array, fix it then, try to resume the reshape. The array is in good health, other than the two kicked drives. I'm not sure I understand what you mean, though. I'm asking about the two offline drives. Should I add the 13th back? It still has substantially the same data as the other 12 drives, discounting the amount that has been re-written. If so, how can I safely stop the array re-shape and re-add the drive? (This is under mdadm 2.6.7.2.) > > On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Leslie Rhorer <lrhorer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hello everyone. > > > > I was just growing one of my RAID6 arrays from 13 to 14 > > members. The array growth had passed its critical stage and had been > > growing for several minutes when the system came to a screeching halt. > > It hit the big red switch, and when the system rebooted, the array I meant to type *I*, not *It*. > > but two members are missing. One of the members is the new drive and > the > > other is the 13th drive in the RAID set. Of course, the array can run > well > > enough with only 12 members, but it?s definitely not the best situation, > > especially since the re-shape will take another day and a half. Is it > best > > I go ahead and leave the array in its current state until the re-shape > is > > done, or should I go ahead and add back the two failed drives? > > > > -- > > 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 > > > > -- > Majed B. -- 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
