-- Ed Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My understanding is that ckraid should fix the problem, however ckraid is now deprecated and it's function is supposed to be handled by the kernel. That's where I'm lost. Ed Thomas Charron wrote: > > I translated what he said as using RAID 5 within software, not a > hardware RAID 5 solution.. > > I believe what is required is to use ckraid /etc/raid5.conf --fix. If > you know what disk is the "good" disk, you can force it to use that drive to > sync the rest by using ckraid /etc/raid5.conf --fix --force-source /dev/hdb1 > (If hdb1 is one of the good copies). > > If you simply run ckraid /etc/raid5.conf, it won;t fix anything, but > tell you what needs to be fixed. > > Refer to Software-RAID HOWTO under section 4) Error recovery for more > information.. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Alex Hewitt USG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Ed Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Greater NH Linux Users Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 10:44 AM > Subject: Re: RAID recovery > > > If it's a true RAID 5 device it should have an automatic recovery mode. > > That is it should take the redundant data from the remaining 2 disks and > > rebuild the 3rd disk in place. > > > > -Alex > > > > > > Wirth's Law: Software gets slower faster than Hardware gets faster! > > > > "On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it > > said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux." - Anonymous > > > > > > On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Ed Robbins wrote: > > > > > Hey everyone, I have a RAID 5 device built between 3 drives and one of > > > the drives failed. How do I get the kernel to rebuild the stripe on > > > that drive? I'm using persistant superblocks for the autodetection and > > > the only way I see to do it is by running mkraid, but it appears that > > > this will destroy the data that's already there. Any info would be > > > greatly appreciated. > > > > > > Thanks. > > > -- > > > Ed Robbins > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > ********************************************************** > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the > > > *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: > > > unsubscribe gnhlug > > > ********************************************************** > > > > > > > > > > > > ********************************************************** > > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the > > *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: > > unsubscribe gnhlug > > ********************************************************** > > -- Ed Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
