On 16/01/2023 12:04, Tiago Afonso wrote:
I'm now at this state.
Regarding (2): Yeah, I know that. I'm slowly replacing them with REDs.
IS THAT A PLAIN RED!
That's probably what's causing the rebuild to hang if so !!!
Your log contained four drives, all blues. Modern WD Reds are SMR
drives, rebuilding a raid will cause them to hang ...
That's why I don't touch WD.
Oh - and if the fifth drive isn't available, that could be causing the
revert-reshape to fail.
> Then tried to assemble it back with just 4 HDDs, the original 4 HDDs:
> root@openmediavault:~# mdadm --assemble --force /dev/md127 /dev/sda
> /dev/sdb /dev/sdd /dev/sde
> mdadm: Marking array /dev/md127 as 'clean'
> mdadm: /dev/md127 has been started with 4 drives (out of 5).
This takes it well out of my comfort zone. I'm sure all the information
is there, and it's probably just a case of clearing the degraded flag,
but that force was not a wise idea. You've just mucked up the drive
configuration data and now pretty much everything will fail.
When the experts chime in they should be able to sort it, but I'm now
well out of my depth. Maybe just forcing the fifth drive back in, but no
I am NOT suggesting you try ...
Cheers,
Wol
