On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 6:33 PM Ryan Heath <gaauuool@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > So this is the approximately response I expected however I do want to > pose a few additional queries: > > So if I read the output correctly it appears that /dev/sdb is the most > recent drive to fail it does appear that it is only slightly out of sync > with the rest four drives that are currently functioning, what is it > exactly that keeps things from being forced back online? > > If as I suspect /dev/sdb was the last drive to fail... I have looked at > it via smartctl and the drive still appears to be functional so wouldn't > recreating be an option? I think this is the area which I was suspecting > I might need guidance. Yes, recreating is an option. But you need to be careful. Please consider Andreas Klauer's suggestion on overlays: Use overlays for experiments: https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Recovering_a_failed_software_RAID#Making_the_harddisks_read-only_using_an_overlay_file Overlays require working drives, so if your drives have partial failure, ddrescue to new drives first!
