On Sat Aug 8 2015 08:11:09 AM Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

On Sat, 8 Aug 2015, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:

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On August 7, 2015 02:38:22 PM Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

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On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:

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Also, sdc has a much lower event count than the other drives, is that
normal?

/dev/sdc is the first drive that failed
/dev/sdb is the one that was kicked after

Can you please post dmesg output from when you unplugged the drive and
what happened to the array then? I guess you do not have "cat
/proc/mdstat" from then? It's weird that sdb was busy. Please post mdadm
version and kernel version.

I posted both after the logs in the previous message, but I'll repeat
here:

Distro: OpenMediaVault / Debian wheezy
Kernel: 3.16.7-ckt4-3~bpo70+1
Mdadm: v3.2.5 (from debian) and v3.3.4-22-gccc93b3 - 05th August 2015

Ah, my bad.

First, I would recommend you to get the latest mdadm from Neils git
repository, compile it and try to use --assemble--force using that mdadm
instead, using the drives with the closest event count.

Hopefully it will work and not treat the drive as a spare.

I did try that :( It fails to assemble because it only sees sdc as a spare.
Maybe because I did things with the old mdadm first, and did a --remove? That
seems to have wiped out the "slot" information (it's -1) so the assemble force
magic can't figure things out? Just a guess on my part.

root@mrbig:~/build/mdadm# ./mdadm -v --assemble --force /dev/md0 /dev/sd[bdefgh]
mdadm: looking for devices for /dev/md0
mdadm: /dev/sdb is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot -1.
mdadm: /dev/sdd is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 2.
mdadm: /dev/sde is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 3.
mdadm: /dev/sdf is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 4.
mdadm: /dev/sdg is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 5.
mdadm: /dev/sdh is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 6.
mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 0 of /dev/md0
mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 1 of /dev/md0
mdadm: added /dev/sde to /dev/md0 as 3
mdadm: added /dev/sdf to /dev/md0 as 4
mdadm: added /dev/sdg to /dev/md0 as 5
mdadm: added /dev/sdh to /dev/md0 as 6
mdadm: added /dev/sdb to /dev/md0 as -1
mdadm: added /dev/sdd to /dev/md0 as 2
mdadm: /dev/md0 assembled from 5 drives and 1 spare - not enough to start the array.

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Thomas Fjellstrom
thomas@fjellstrom.ca