Good evening.
I am having a bit of a problem with a largish RAID5 set.
Now it is looking more and more like I am about to lose all the data on
it, so I am asking (begging?) to see if anyone can help me sort this out.
Here is the scenario: 16 SATA disks connected to a pair of AMCC(3Ware)
9550SX-12 controllers.
RAID 5, 15 disks, plus 1 hot spare.
SMART started reporting errors on a disk, so it was retired with the
3Ware CLI, then removed and replaced.
The new disk had a JBOD signature added with the 3Ware CLI, then a
single large partition was created with fdisk.
At this point I would expect to be able to add the disk back to the
array by:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mdadm /dev/md3 -a /dev/sdw1
But, I get this error message:
mdadm: hot add failed for /dev/sdw1: No such device
What? We just made the partition on sdw a moment ago in fdisk. It IS there!
So. we look around a bit:
# /cat/proc/mdstat
md3 : inactive sdq1[0] sdaf1[15] sdae1[14] sdad1[13] sdac1[12] sdab1[11]
sdaa1[10] sdz1[9] sdy1[8] sdx1[7] sdv1[5] sdu1[4] sdt1[3] sds1[2]
sdr1[1]
5860631040 blocks
Yup, that looks correct, missing sdw1[6]
Looking more:
# mdadm -D /dev/md3
/dev/md3:
Version : 00.90.01
Creation Time : Tue Jan 10 19:21:23 2006
Raid Level : raid5
Device Size : 390708736 (372.61 GiB 400.09 GB)
Raid Devices : 16
Total Devices : 15
Preferred Minor : 3
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Update Time : Mon May 8 19:33:36 2006
State : active, degraded
Active Devices : 15
Working Devices : 15
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 256K
UUID : 771aa4c0:48d9b467:44c847e2:9bc81c43
Events : 0.1818687
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 65 1 0 active sync /dev/sdq1
1 65 17 1 active sync /dev/sdr1
2 65 33 2 active sync /dev/sds1
3 65 49 3 active sync /dev/sdt1
4 65 65 4 active sync /dev/sdu1
5 65 81 5 active sync /dev/sdv1
609 0 0 0 removed
7 65 113 7 active sync /dev/sdx1
8 65 129 8 active sync /dev/sdy1
9 65 145 9 active sync /dev/sdz1
10 65 161 10 active sync /dev/sdaa1
11 65 177 11 active sync /dev/sdab1
12 65 193 12 active sync /dev/sdac1
13 65 209 13 active sync /dev/sdad1
14 65 225 14 active sync /dev/sdae1
15 65 241 15 active sync /dev/sdaf1
That also looks to be as expected.
So, lets try to assemble it again and force sdw1 in to it:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mdadm
--assemble /dev/md3 /dev/sdq1 /dev/sdr1 /dev/sds1 /dev/sdt1 /dev/sdu1
/dev/sdv1 /dev/sdw1 /dev/sdx1 /dev/sdy1 /dev/sdz1 /dev/sdaa1 /dev/sdab1
/dev/sdac1 /dev/sdad1 /dev/sdae1 /dev/sdaf1
mdadm: superblock on /dev/sdw1 doesn't match others - assembly aborted
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mdadm
--assemble /dev/md3 /dev/sdq1 /dev/sdr1 /dev/sds1 /dev/sdt1 /dev/sdu1
/dev/sdv1 /dev/sdx1 /dev/sdy1 /dev/sdz1 /dev/sdaa1 /dev/sdab1 /dev/sdac1
/dev/sdad1 /dev/sdae1 /dev/sdaf1
mdadm: failed to RUN_ARRAY /dev/md3: Invalid argument
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mdadm
-A /dev/md3 /dev/sdq1 /dev/sdr1 /dev/sds1 /dev/sdt1 /dev/sdu1 /dev/sdv1
/dev/sdx1 /dev/sdy1 /dev/sdz1 /dev/sdaa1 /dev/sdab1 /dev/sdac1
/dev/sdad1 /dev/sdae1 /dev/sdaf1
mdadm: device /dev/md3 already active - cannot assemble it
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1] [raid5]
md1 : active raid1 hdb3[1] hda3[0]
115105600 blocks [2/2] [UU]
md2 : active raid5 sdp1[15] sdo1[14] sdn1[13] sdm1[12] sdl1[11] sdk1[10]
sdj1[9] sdi1[8] sdh1[7] sdg1[6] sdf1[5] sde1[4] sdd1[3] sdc1[2] sdb1[1]
sda1[0]
5860631040 blocks level 5, 256k chunk, algorithm 2 [16/16]
[UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU]
md3 : inactive sdq1[0] sdaf1[15] sdae1[14] sdad1[13] sdac1[12] sdab1[11]
sdaa1[10] sdz1[9] sdy1[8] sdx1[7] sdv1[5] sdu1[4] sdt1[3] sds1[2]
sdr1[1]
5860631040 blocks
md0 : active raid1 hdb1[1] hda1[0]
104320 blocks [2/2] [UU]
unused devices: <none>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mdadm /dev/md3 -a /dev/sdw1
mdadm: hot add failed for /dev/sdw1: No such device
OK, let's mount the degraded RAID and try to copy the files to somewhere
else, so we can make it from scratch:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mount /dev/md3 /all/boxw16/
/dev/md3: Invalid argument
mount: /dev/md3: can't read superblock
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# fsck /dev/md3
fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
e2fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
fsck.ext2: Invalid argument while trying to open /dev/md3
The superblock could not be read..
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mke2fs -n /dev/md3
mke2fs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
mke2fs: Device size reported to be zero. Invalid partition specified,
or partition table wasn't reread after running fdisk, due to
a modified partition being busy and in use. You may need to
reboot to re-read your partition table.
So, now what to do?
Any ideas would be DEEPLY appreciated !
--
Regards,
Maurice
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in
the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
