Re: RAID-6 problem
flat view
From: Keith Keller <hidden>
Date: 2012-10-13 18:45:10
On 2012-10-13, Mikael Abrahamsson [off-list ref] wrote:
Re-creating a raid5/6 with --assume-clean is for me a disaster recovery, something that should be performed when everything else fails. It's extremely unfortunate that a lot of guides bring this in very early in the fault finding process.
Actually the RAID wiki suggests exactly this path, and suggests against --force, contrary to the advice I've gotten here from Neil and others. https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RAID_Recovery#Restore_array_by_recreating_.28after_multiple_device_failure.29 I could update this, but not being expert all it'd say is "use --assemble --force; if it fails ask on the mailing list." :) Perhaps that's actually the best advice to give, but if there's something more useful to put on that page maybe someone with more expertise could update it? --keith -- kkeller@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us