On 02/19/2013 11:01 AM, stone@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > hi guys. > > yesterday my raid5 of 4 disk is broken and i dont find a better way as > to re-create it new. > mdadm --create /dev/md2 --assume-clean --verbose --level=5 > --raid-devices=4 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 missing /dev/sdf1 > > my problem is now that i cannot open die LUKS on the device md2 > cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/md2 md2_nas > Device /dev/md2 is not a valid LUKS device. > > i found with an hexdump on the disk sdc1 and sdf1 the LUKS header > hexdump -C /dev/sdc1 | head -40 > ..... > 00100000 4c 55 4b 53 ba be 00 01 61 65 73 00 00 00 00 00 > |LUKS....aes.....| > .... > > so i think the header must be also on the md2 device but not on the > beginning. > is my raid constrct false? must i reconstruct my array new? > > who can i bring my raid so up that i can open the LUKS and save all my > data? Please post your "mdadm -E" reports for your disks from *before* you did "mdadm --create". If you do not have these reports, some guessing may be required. (And why did you choose mdadm --create? That's a terrible step to take without good advice first.) Also post "mdadm -E" reports for /dev/sdc1, sdd1, and sdf1 as they are now, so we can compare. If you still have dmesg from before and after the breakage, please post it too. The hexdump above is very valuable, and will certainly help make educated guesses (if necessary). Phil -- 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