On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 8:57 PM, NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote: .. > Possibly. > > It looks like sdb2 failed in October 2009 !!!! and nobody noticed. So your > array has been running degraded since then. Hmm, I would say "Oops" but I guess I am happy it was not my job to watch this. > If you > > mdadm -A /dev/md1 --force /dev/sd[acd]2 > > Then you will have your array back,.. I will be grabbing a set of 4 new drives, plus a spare tomorrow morning. Thanks VERY much for this! > Also run "mdadm --monitor" configured to send you email if there is a drive > failure. I will do some more reading to figure out how to do that I guess. Good to know that is possible. > Also run "mdadm --monitor --oneshot" from a cron tab every day so > that if you have a degraded array it will nag you about it every day. More good stuff. Is there a reasonably good book that one can read to learn this stuff? I read the man pages and my head is still fuzzy. > Good luck, > NeilBrown Thank you, and much obliged! I **hope** I will not have to bug you any more about this. -- 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
