On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:56:48 -0500 freeone3000 <freeone3000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks a lot for your help. I have my data back! Played a few movie > files off of the mounted drive, and they all worked perfect. Sorry for > being such a dunce with the block sizes. > > `/dev/sdc3:2048s /dev/sdb3:2048s /dev/sde:2048s /dev/sdd3:1024s > missing` mounted the drive successfully. Now, is there a way to > "normalize" my drives so I can mount it without running through this > guesswork again? Or that I can re-create my array using a standard > mdadm? No. But maybe with Linux-3.6 is out. Of course you only need the 'guess work' etc if something serious goes wrong again. Hopefully it won't. NeilBrown > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Piergiorgio Sartor > <piergiorgio.sartor@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 08:22:02PM +0200, Pierre Beck wrote: > > > I wonder if LVM activation can be done without writing to the array? > > > IIRC it updates at least some timestamp ... > > > > we tried setting the array itself read only, > > which prevent (or it should) anybody above, > > filesystem or LVM, to perform writes... > > > > Neveretheless, the result was a bit "strange", > > namely a kernel BUG() or similar, we had to > > reset the PC. > > > > I'm not sure if this was caused by other issue, > > since the PC was in a not really healty state, > > or a direct consequence of md device in r/o. > > > > bye, > > > > -- > > > > piergiorgio > > -- > > 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 > > > > > -- > James Moore > -- > 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
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