Re: unable to assemble (mostly?) clean array

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On Sun, 8 Dec 2013 19:00:02 -0800 Christopher Hoover <ch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> OK, seems to be back to doing "something".    See below.
> 
> I'm a little concerned that it "promoted" sde1 rather than relying on
> the other three drives with the same event count.

Two of those three devices considered themselves to be 'spares' - so there is
no reason to believe there was useful data on them.


> 
> Very much thank you for your help!
> 
> -ch
> 
> p.s. is there anyway to assemble a container from components in read
> only mode?  I have a feeling i'm going to loved sde1 again before the
> recovery.

Not really, no.

NeilBrown



> 
> 
> 
> ch@snaggle:~/src/mdadm$ sudo ./mdadm -Avf /dev/md0  /dev/sd[efdg]1
> mdadm: looking for devices for /dev/md0
> mdadm: /dev/sdd1 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 4.
> mdadm: /dev/sde1 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 1.
> mdadm: /dev/sdf1 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 2.
> mdadm: /dev/sdg1 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 5.
> mdadm: forcing event count in /dev/sde1(1) from 286011 upto 286024
> mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 0 of /dev/md0
> mdadm: added /dev/sdf1 to /dev/md0 as 2
> mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 6 of /dev/md0
> mdadm: added /dev/sdd1 to /dev/md0 as 4
> mdadm: added /dev/sdg1 to /dev/md0 as 5
> mdadm: added /dev/sde1 to /dev/md0 as 1
> mdadm: /dev/md0 has been started with 2 drives (out of 4) and 2 spares.
> 
> ch@snaggle:~/src/mdadm$ sudo mdadm -D /dev/md0
> /dev/md0:
>         Version : 0.90
>   Creation Time : Mon May 23 00:02:10 2011
>      Raid Level : raid6
>      Array Size : 2930271872 (2794.53 GiB 3000.60 GB)
>   Used Dev Size : 1465135936 (1397.26 GiB 1500.30 GB)
>    Raid Devices : 4
>   Total Devices : 4
> Preferred Minor : 0
>     Persistence : Superblock is persistent
> 
>     Update Time : Sun Dec  8 18:53:29 2013
>           State : clean, degraded, recovering
>  Active Devices : 2
> Working Devices : 4
>  Failed Devices : 0
>   Spare Devices : 2
> 
>          Layout : left-symmetric
>      Chunk Size : 64K
> 
>  Rebuild Status : 0% complete
> 
>            UUID : 48af1ed4:8978e992:f8a6b934:875c877f (local to host snaggle)
>          Events : 0.286025
> 
>     Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
>        4       8       97        0      spare rebuilding   /dev/sdg1
>        1       8       65        1      active sync   /dev/sde1
>        2       8       81        2      active sync   /dev/sdf1
>        5       8       49        3      spare rebuilding   /dev/sdd1
> ch@snaggle:~/src/mdadm$
> 
> 
> On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 5:33 PM, NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sun, 8 Dec 2013 17:08:19 -0800 Christopher Hoover <ch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> ch@snaggle:~$ sudo mdadm --assemble --verbose  --force /dev/md0  /dev/sd[defg]1
> >> mdadm: looking for devices for /dev/md0
> >> mdadm: /dev/sdd1 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 4.
> >> mdadm: /dev/sde1 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 1.
> >> mdadm: /dev/sdf1 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 2.
> >> mdadm: /dev/sdg1 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 5.
> >> mdadm: ignoring /dev/sde1 as it reports /dev/sdd1 as failed
> >> mdadm: ignoring /dev/sdf1 as it reports /dev/sdd1 as failed
> >> mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 0 of /dev/md0
> >> mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 1 of /dev/md0
> >> mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 2 of /dev/md0
> >> mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 3 of /dev/md0
> >> mdadm: added /dev/sdg1 to /dev/md0 as 5
> >> mdadm: added /dev/sdd1 to /dev/md0 as 4
> >> mdadm: /dev/md0 assembled from 0 drives and 2 spares - not enough to
> >> start the array.
> >> ch@snaggle:~$
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > I recognise this bug now.  You are running mdadm-3.2.something - correct?
> > You need 3.3.
> > Just grab the latest:
> >
> >  cd /tmp;git clone git://neil.brown.name/mdadm ; cd mdadm ; make ; ./mdadm  -Avf /dev/md0 /dev/sd[defg]1
> >
> > NeilBrown
> >
> >
> >>
> >> On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 5:02 PM, NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > On Sun, 8 Dec 2013 16:32:22 -0800 Christopher Hoover <ch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> yes, thanks, typo there.  that was done hastily for the e-mail.
> >> >>
> >> >> i had tried the right thing previously and here it is again.  still no luck:
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> ch@snaggle:~$ sudo mdadm -E /dev/sd[defg]1 | egrep 'Events|^/dev/sd'
> >> >> /dev/sdd1:
> >> >>          Events : 286024
> >> >> /dev/sde1:
> >> >>          Events : 286011
> >> >> /dev/sdf1:
> >> >>          Events : 286024
> >> >> /dev/sdg1:
> >> >>          Events : 286024
> >> >> ch@snaggle:~$ sudo mdadm --assemble --force /dev/md0  /dev/sd[dfg]1
> >> >> mdadm: ignoring /dev/sdf1 as it reports /dev/sdd1 as failed
> >> >> mdadm: /dev/md0 assembled from 0 drives and 2 spares - not enough to
> >> >> start the array.
> >> >> ch@snaggle:~$
> >> >
> >> > Please try listing *all* of the devices, and add "-v" for extra output.
> >> >
> >> > NeilBrown
> >

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