Re: RAID6 array won't start

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On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:13:53 -0500 Christian <cjs703@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 3:49 PM, NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:48:41 -0500 Christian <cjs703@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I have a 10 disk RAID6 array.  I had an issue with a molex connector
> >> that caused drives to drop from a 5in3 SATA backplane.  There wasn't
> >> any activity occurring on the array during the time, so I think the
> >> filesystem should be in tact.  The issue now is the event counts are
> >> out of sync, along with the state of each drive.
> >>
> >> # mdadm -A /dev/md1 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdf1 /dev/sdg1 /dev/sdk1 /dev/sdl1
> >> /dev/sdm1 /dev/sdq1 /dev/sdr1 /dev/sds1 /dev/sdt1
> >> mdadm: /dev/md1 assembled from 8 drives - not enough to start the
> >> array while not clean - consider --force.
> >>
> >> # cat /proc/mdstat
> >> Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
> >> md1 : inactive sdt1[1](S) sde1[9](S) sdl1[8](S) sdg1[7](S) sdf1[6](S)
> >> sdk1[5](S) sdq1[4](S) sds1[3](S) sdr1[2](S) sdm1[0](S)
> >>       19535134720 blocks
> >>
> >>
> >> # mdadm -Af /dev/md1 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdf1 /dev/sdg1 /dev/sdk1 /dev/sdl1
> >> /dev/sdm1 /dev/sdq1 /dev/sdr1 /dev/sds1 /dev/sdt1
> >> mdadm: failed to RUN_ARRAY /dev/md1: Input/output error
> >
> > The array is already in a partially-assembled state.
> >
> > mdadm -S /dev/md1
> >
> > before trying to assemble again with -f.
> >
> > NeilBrown
> 
> I should have probably included it but I did stop the array with -S
> before running -Af.

True.

Ok, being sure that the array is stopped first, try the "-Af" command again,
but an a -v.
Then post the results together with any kernel messages (dmesg | tail -50
maybe)

NeilBrown
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