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From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: LinuxKernel@jamesplace.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problem recovering a failed RIAD5 array with 4-drives.
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:21:57 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18070.46997.541325.761868@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: message from James on Thursday July 12

On Thursday July 12, LinuxKernel@jamesplace.net wrote:
> 
> I don't know the original order of the array before all the problems started. 
> 
> Is there a way to determine the original order? 

No, unless you have some old kernel logs of the last time it assembled
the array properly.
The one thing that "--create" does destroy is the information about
any previous array that the drives were a part of.

> 
> The order that --detail is showing now is the order that appeared after 
> issuing the command is it is in the email. (ie: a b c d)

Odd.  I cannot reproduce it.
I suggest you try different arrangements (of the 3 good drives and the
word 'missing') until you find one that 'fsck -n' likes.

NeilBrown

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-12 23:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-12 13:49 James
2007-07-12 16:44 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-07-12 20:21   ` James
2007-07-12 21:41     ` Phil Turmel
2007-07-12 22:48 ` Neil Brown
2007-07-12 23:10   ` James
2007-07-12 23:21     ` Neil Brown [this message]
2007-07-13  0:49       ` Problem recovering a failed RIAD5 array with 4-drives. --RESOLVED James
2007-07-16 15:04         ` David Greaves

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