On 26.02.2014 08:14, Karl Wilbur wrote: > > I have spent several hours now searching Google, reading list > archives, as well as trying a few things from the wiki (like the > attempts to re-create the array). > > I feel fairly certain that the filesystem is still intact and should > mountable, I'm just as a loss as to where to go next. Any ideas or > suggestions? I am not an expert on this, but just looking at the output I wonder if you used the right disk order on the recreate? You have used > mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=6 --chunk=64 --size=976762496 > --assume-clean --raid-devices=9 --metadata=0.9 /dev/sdb /dev/sdc > /dev/sdd /dev/sde /dev/sdf /dev/sdg /dev/sdh /dev/sdi /dev/sdj b c d e f g h i j while the original --explain output suggests > 0 0 8 16 0 active sync /dev/sdb > 1 1 0 0 1 faulty removed > 2 2 8 112 2 active sync /dev/sdh > 3 3 0 0 3 faulty removed > 4 4 8 144 4 active sync /dev/sdj > 5 5 8 128 5 active sync /dev/sdi > 6 6 0 0 6 faulty removed > 7 7 8 32 7 active sync /dev/sdc > 8 8 8 96 8 active sync /dev/sdg b ? h ? j i ? c g (question marks being missing disks - that is, position has to be guessed). On the wiki, there is the suggestion of doing any experiments read-only via a read-write overlay file. This seems to be a very good idea. > https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Recovering_a_failed_software_RAID#Making_the_harddisks_read-only_using_an_overlay_file Best regards, Jakob -- 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
