Hi,
I've got a home compute server with a transitional setup:
1) A completely working Gentoo build where root is a 3-disk RAID1
(md126) using metadata-0.9 and no initramfs. It boots, works and is
where I'm writing tthis email.
2) A new Gentoo build done in a chroot which has two 'config's'
2a) RAID6 using gentoo-sources-3.2.1 with a separate initramfs. This
works, or did an hour ago.
2b) RAID6 using gentoo-sources-3.6.11 with the initramfs built into
the kernel. This failed its first boot.
I attempted to boot config 2b above but it hung somewhere in the mdadm
stuff. I didn't think of trying the magic keys stuff and hit reset.
Following the failure I booted back into config 1 and saw the
following messages in dmesg:
[ 7.313458] md: kicking non-fresh sdf3 from array!
[ 7.313461] md: unbind<sdf3>
[ 7.329149] md: export_rdev(sdf3)
[ 7.329688] md/raid:md3: device sdc3 operational as raid disk 1
[ 7.329690] md/raid:md3: device sdd3 operational as raid disk 2
[ 7.329691] md/raid:md3: device sdb3 operational as raid disk 0
[ 7.329693] md/raid:md3: device sde3 operational as raid disk 3
[ 7.329914] md/raid:md3: allocated 5352kB
[ 7.329929] md/raid:md3: raid level 6 active with 4 out of 5
devices, algorithm 2
and mdstat tells me that md3, which is root for 2a & 2b above is dirty:
mark@c2stable ~ $ cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
md6 : active raid5 sdc6[1] sdd6[2] sdb6[0]
494833664 blocks super 1.1 level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/3] [UUU]
md3 : active raid6 sdc3[1] sdd3[2] sdb3[0] sde3[3]
157305168 blocks super 1.2 level 6, 16k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/4] [UUUU_]
md7 : active raid6 sdc7[1] sdd7[2] sdb7[0] sde2[3] sdf2[4]
395387904 blocks super 1.2 level 6, 16k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/5] [UUUUU]
md126 : active raid1 sdd5[2] sdc5[1] sdb5[0]
52436032 blocks [3/3] [UUU]
unused devices: <none>
mark@c2stable ~ $
I'd like to check that the following commands would be the recommended
way to get the RAID6 back into a good state.
/sbin/mdadm /dev/md3 --fail /dev/sdf3 --remove /dev/sdf3
/sbin/mdadm /dev/md3 --add /dev/sdf3
My overall goal here is to move the machine to config 2b with / on
RAID6 and then eventually delete config 1 to reclaim disk space. This
machine has been my RAID learning vehicle where I started with RAID1
and then added as I went along.
I'll have to study why the config 2b failed to boot but first I want
to get everything back in good shape.
Thanks in advance,
Mark
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