On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 22:32:19 -0700 Ian Young <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? Use the "--force" option with "--assemble". NeilBrown
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