AW: recover short-time-power-failure of raid 5?
From: Martin Bene <hidden>
Date: 2002-11-25 10:07:48
From: Martin Bene <hidden>
Date: 2002-11-25 10:07:48
Hi markus,
I suggest that after assembling the array, you 'fsck' the filesystem on md0 just to make sure that the data is fine and then simply hot-add the third device: mdadm /dev/md0 -a /dev/sdc If fsck reports lots of error..... maybe try force the assmbly from a different pair of drives. e.g. mdadm -A --force /dev/sda1 /dev/sdc2 and then do the fsck.
Oh, and if you try this: DON'T allow fsck to change/fix anything on the disks if you want to later try a different combination - data corruption is pretty much guaranteed if you allow any writes and then change to a different set of disks. Bye, Martin PS: not sure what happens if you're using a journaling fs on the raid - I think fsck replays the journal before checking, so trying out different combinations of disk doesn't look like a viable option in that case?