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Thanks for the fast reply!

I'm not sure I understand why drive 5 should be failed. It is one of the
four disks with the most recently correct superblocks. The disk with the
oldest superblock is #1. Can you point me to documentation which explains
this better? I'm a little afraid of doing that without reading more on it,
since it seems to mark yet another of the 4 remaining "good" drives as
"bad".

Also, should the failed-disk directive be substituted for the raid-disk
directive (as your example was), or should it be:

device /dev/sdd1
raid-disk 0
device /dev/sde1
raid-disk 1
device /dev/sdf1
raid-disk 2
device /dev/sdg1
raid-disk 3
device /dev/sdh1
raid-disk 4
device /dev/sdi1
raid-disk 5
failed-disk 5

or should it really be:

device /dev/sdd1
raid-disk 0
device /dev/sde1
raid-disk 1
failed-disk 1
device /dev/sdf1
raid-disk 2
device /dev/sdg1
raid-disk 3
device /dev/sdh1
raid-disk 4
device /dev/sdi1
raid-disk 5

Thanks!

Evan

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On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Jakob Østergaard wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 07:29:06PM -0500, Evan Harris wrote:
> >
> > And yes, I'm using the real --force option. :)
>
> Good (hush now, it's a secret ;)
>
> >
> > I have a 6 disk RAID5 scsi array that had one disk go offline through a
> > dying power supply, taking the array into degraded mode, and then another
> > went offline a couple of hours later from what I think was a loose cable.
> >
> > The first drive to go offline was /dev/sde1.
> > The second to go offline was /dev/sdd1.
> >
> > Both drives are actually fine after fixing the connection problems and a
> > reboot, but since the superblocks are out of sync, it won't init.
>
> Ok.
>
> ...
> [huge snip]
> ...
> >
> > I set the first disk that went offline out with a failed-disk directive, and
> > tried to recover with a:
> >
> > mkraid --force /dev/md0
>
> Good !
>
> (to anyone reading this without having read the docs: don't pull this trick
> unless you absolutely positively understand the consequences of screwing up
> here)
>
> >
> > I'm _positive_ that the /etc/raidtab is correct, but it fails to force the
> > update with:
> >
> > DESTROYING the contents of /dev/md0 in 5 seconds, Ctrl-C if unsure!
> > handling MD device /dev/md0
> > analyzing super-block
> > raid_disk conflict on /dev/sde1 and /dev/sdi1 (1)
> > mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues.
> ...
>
> Read on
>
>
> [snip]
> > For info, here is my raidtab:
> >
> > raiddev /dev/md0
> > raid-level 5
> > nr-raid-disks 6
> > nr-spare-disks 0
> > chunk-size 256
> > persistent-superblock 1
> > device /dev/sdd1
> > raid-disk 0
> > device /dev/sde1
> > raid-disk 1
> > device /dev/sdf1
> > raid-disk 2
> > device /dev/sdg1
> > raid-disk 3
> > device /dev/sdh1
> > raid-disk 4
> > device /dev/sdi1
> > raid-disk 5
> > failed-disk 1
>
>
> Wrong ! device /dev/sdi1 is railed-disk 5 not failed-disk 1,
> that's why mkraid is confused.
>
> What you want is:
> device /dev/sdd1
> raid-disk 0
> device /dev/sde1
> raid-disk 1
> device /dev/sdf1
> raid-disk 2
> device /dev/sdg1
> raid-disk 3
> device /dev/sdh1
> raid-disk 4
> device /dev/sdi1
> failed-disk 5
>
>
> Good luck,
>
> --
> ................................................................
> : jakob@unthought.net : And I see the elder races, :
> :.........................: putrid forms of man :
> : Jakob Østergaard : See him rise and claim the earth, :
> : OZ9ABN : his downfall is at hand. :
> :.........................:............{Konkhra}...............:
>

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