> Since I had only one valid device to check with etc, I assume > that if fsck -n -f /dev/md2 runs sucessfully, it is 100% safe > to assume the array is perfectly healthy? If the filesystem used supports both metadata and data checksums and its 'fsck -f' does verify all of them, then yes. Otherwise obviously no. > [ ... ] recommended to simply create a new array, with a new > FS on it, and copy all data over (Logically also with > /dev/md2, /dev/sda6 missing and later adding sdb6)? Given the number of people who ask here to recover the unique data they have on a RAID set, perhaps it is good to restate here that RAID does not mean "no longer need backups" :-). >> [ ... ] I was wrong. I was so sure I made it o2, that I ruled >> out the possibility it being f2. [ ... ] Short story short, >> it turns out it was 128k chunks, Far2 offset. [ ... ] While you go the lengths of choosing particular layouts on specific filetrees, saving the output of '--scan' in 'mdadm.conf' seems strangely to have been a lower priority :-). -- 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
