Re: Small short question
flat view
From: Peter Grandi <hidden>
Date: 2012-09-14 16:43:01
Since I had only one valid device to check with etc, I assume that if fsck -n -f /dev/md2 runs sucessfully, it is 100% safe to assume the array is perfectly healthy?
If the filesystem used supports both metadata and data checksums and its 'fsck -f' does verify all of them, then yes. Otherwise obviously no.
[ ... ] recommended to simply create a new array, with a new FS on it, and copy all data over (Logically also with /dev/md2, /dev/sda6 missing and later adding sdb6)?
Given the number of people who ask here to recover the unique data they have on a RAID set, perhaps it is good to restate here that RAID does not mean "no longer need backups" :-).
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[ ... ] I was wrong. I was so sure I made it o2, that I ruled out the possibility it being f2. [ ... ] Short story short, it turns out it was 128k chunks, Far2 offset. [ ... ]
While you go the lengths of choosing particular layouts on specific filetrees, saving the output of '--scan' in 'mdadm.conf' seems strangely to have been a lower priority :-).