Re: Moron Destroyed RAID6 Array Superblocks

2007-04-14 Thread Aaron C. de Bruyn
If the array consisted of 7 drives, two of them would be parity and I'd need to leave them out of the array in order to avoid resyncing. Would I need to specify them as 'missing' so the drives are in the correct order? For example mdadm --raid-devices=7 --level=6 --foo /dev/md0 /dev/sda1

Re: Moron Destroyed RAID6 Array Superblocks

2007-04-14 Thread Corey Hickey
Aaron C. de Bruyn wrote: Ok--I got moved in to my new place and am back and running on the 'net. I sat down for a few hours and attempted to write a script to try all possible combinations of drives...but I have to admit that I'm lost. I have 8 drives in the array--and I can output every

Re: Manually hacking superblocks

2007-04-14 Thread Lasse Kärkkäinen
You will need a --create This fixed the issue. So far, at least, I couldn't find any data corruption either :) Thank you. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at