My 6-drive software RAID 10 array failed. The individual drives failed one at a time over the past few months but it's been an extremely busy summer and I didn't have the free time to RMA the drives and rebuild the array. Now I'm wishing I had acted sooner because three of the drives are marked as removed and the array doesn't have enough mirrors to start. I followed the recovery instructions at raid.wiki.kernel.org and, before making things any worse, saved the status using mdadm --examine and consulted this mailing list. Here's the status: http://pastebin.com/KkV8e8Gq I can see that the event counts on sdd2 and sdf2 are significantly far behind, so we can consider that data too old. sdc2 is only behind by two events, so any data loss there should be minimal. If I can make the array start with sd[abce]2 I think that will be enough to mount the filesystem, back up my data, and start replacing drives. How do I do that? -- 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
