Hi all Looking for some advice please. My raid array failed today. I'm a total raid noob, so I'm really not sure what the right thing to do is, and am worried I'll unnecessarily lose data. I had to boot using a Live CD in order to get this information, so not sure if some valuable information is missing. Here are results from running some commands listed on the RAID_recovery page of the raid wiki $ dmesg | grep raid [ 185.301031] raid6: int64x1 1675 MB/s [ 185.318020] raid6: int64x2 2171 MB/s [ 185.335017] raid6: int64x4 1511 MB/s [ 185.352039] raid6: int64x8 1425 MB/s [ 185.369003] raid6: sse2x1 3851 MB/s [ 185.386012] raid6: sse2x2 4746 MB/s [ 185.403004] raid6: sse2x4 6378 MB/s [ 185.403006] raid6: using algorithm sse2x4 (6378 MB/s) [ 185.681200] md: raid6 personality registered for level 6 [ 185.681203] md: raid5 personality registered for level 5 [ 185.681205] md: raid4 personality registered for level 4 [ 185.681519] md/raid:md127: device sdb1 operational as raid disk 2 [ 185.681521] md/raid:md127: device sdc1 operational as raid disk 0 [ 185.682031] md/raid:md127: allocated 4312kB [ 185.682077] md/raid:md127: not enough operational devices (2/4 failed) [ 185.682386] md/raid:md127: failed to run raid set. $ mdadm --examine /dev/sd[a-z]1 /dev/sdb1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 4dc53f9d:f0c55279:a9cb9592:a59607c9 Name : NAS:0 Creation Time : Sat Sep 10 12:37:59 2011 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 4 Avail Dev Size : 3907027053 (1863.02 GiB 2000.40 GB) Array Size : 11721077760 (5589.05 GiB 6001.19 GB) Used Dev Size : 3907025920 (1863.02 GiB 2000.40 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : e8369dbc:bf591efa:f0ccc359:9d164ec8 Update Time : Tue May 27 04:54:37 2014 Checksum : a17a88c0 - correct Events : 1026050 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 2 Array State : A.A. ('A' == active, '.' == missing) /dev/sdc1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 4dc53f9d:f0c55279:a9cb9592:a59607c9 Name : NAS:0 Creation Time : Sat Sep 10 12:37:59 2011 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 4 Avail Dev Size : 3907027053 (1863.02 GiB 2000.40 GB) Array Size : 11721077760 (5589.05 GiB 6001.19 GB) Used Dev Size : 3907025920 (1863.02 GiB 2000.40 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 78221e11:02acc1c8:c4eb01bf:f0852cbe Update Time : Tue May 27 04:54:37 2014 Checksum : 1fbb54b8 - correct Events : 1026050 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 0 Array State : A.A. ('A' == active, '.' == missing) /dev/sdd1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 4dc53f9d:f0c55279:a9cb9592:a59607c9 Name : NAS:0 Creation Time : Sat Sep 10 12:37:59 2011 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 4 Avail Dev Size : 3907027053 (1863.02 GiB 2000.40 GB) Array Size : 11721077760 (5589.05 GiB 6001.19 GB) Used Dev Size : 3907025920 (1863.02 GiB 2000.40 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : fd282483:d2647838:f6b9897e:c216616c Update Time : Mon Oct 7 04:21:22 2013 Checksum : 6df566b8 - correct Events : 32621 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 3 Array State : AAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) /dev/sde1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 4dc53f9d:f0c55279:a9cb9592:a59607c9 Name : NAS:0 Creation Time : Sat Sep 10 12:37:59 2011 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 4 Avail Dev Size : 3907027053 (1863.02 GiB 2000.40 GB) Array Size : 11721077760 (5589.05 GiB 6001.19 GB) Used Dev Size : 3907025920 (1863.02 GiB 2000.40 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : e84657dd:0882a7c8:5918b191:2fc3da02 Update Time : Tue May 27 04:46:12 2014 Checksum : 33ab6fe - correct Events : 1026039 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 1 Array State : AAA. ('A' == active, '.' == missing) $ mdadm --examine /dev/sd[a-z]1 | egrep 'Event|/dev/sd' /dev/sdb1: Events : 1026050 /dev/sdc1: Events : 1026050 /dev/sdd1: Events : 32621 /dev/sde1: Events : 1026039 Any and all advice greatly appreciated. TIA Steve -- 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