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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RAID-5 design bug (or misfeature)
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 23:39:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050531213953.GC9614@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505301759550.6859@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>

Hi!

> > At that point your stripes *are*
> > inconsistent. If it didn't mark them as failed then you wouldn't know it
> > was corrupted after a power restore. You can then clean it fsck it,
> > restore it,
> > use mdadm as appropriate to restore the volume and check it.
> 
> I can't because mdadm is on that volume ... I solved it by booting from
> floppy and editing raid superblocks with disk hexeditor but not every user
> wants to do it; there should be at least kernel boot parameter for
> it.

Well, you should not use hexedit... just boot from rescue cd and run
mdadd from it. No need to pollute kernel with that one.

								Pavel

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-05-31 21:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-29 22:53 Mikulas Patocka
2005-05-29 23:01 ` Wakko Warner
2005-05-29 23:58 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-05-30  2:47   ` Mikulas Patocka
2005-05-30  3:00     ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-05-30 11:55     ` Alan Cox
2005-05-30 13:23       ` Stephen Frost
2005-05-30 16:09       ` Mikulas Patocka
2005-05-31  8:05         ` Helge Hafting
2005-05-31 21:39         ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2005-06-01  1:43           ` Mikulas Patocka
2005-06-01 18:18       ` Bill Davidsen

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