Another> Sorry to state the obvious but...... To restore the degraded Another> array would (based on the info you've posted) likely take Another> longer then temporarily moving the data to a different set of Another> drives. How do you figure this? He hasn't posted any useful data on his array at all. We know it's six 3Tb disks in RAID10, so that's at most 9Tb of data. Moving 3Tb (bad disk ddrescue'd onto new disk) is only 3Tb to move. Then the resync will of course take time. But if he doesn't have the spare disk space, it's probably the only way. Another> As time seems to be a major consideration here (likely/possible Another> failure of sde) then surely the optimal strategy has to be to get the Another> data off first, then look at the rebuilding the degraded array? Another> Just my 2c Another> On 17 October 2014 15:05, John Stoffel <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >> Ian, >> >> It would also help if you posted the details of your setup using: >> >> cat /proc/partitions >> cat /proc/mdstat >> >> mdadm -D /dev/md# >> - for each of the devices above. >> >> mdadm -E /dev/sd<drive><#> >> - for each disk or partition in the array from above. >> >> >> >> But the suggestions to ddrescue the going bad drive onto a new disk is >> a good one. On my debian system, I would do the following: >> >> sudo apt-get install gddrescue >> ddrescue /dev/sde /dev/sdf /var/tmp/ddrecue-sde.log >> >> and see how that goes. >> >> Good luck, >> John >> -- >> 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 Another> -- Another> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in Another> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Another> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- 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
