> I had a failure where 2 of the disks out of 4 is marked bad.
< (by superblock update time inconsistency) Do i have chance to recover
> from this ? thanx in advance..
This should be in the FAQ ...
*** I have never used RAID5 for real.
*** I have seen this suggestion before, and I agree it is probably the best
*** you can do !
If you think you have a set of disks which will make up a degraded array,
then cross your fingers, and go for it !
Set up a raidtab entry **WITH GREAT CARE** specifying the minimal set as
above, with the oldest partitions `raid-failed'. Now create the device.
This will write a new set of consistent PSBs.
Do an `fsck -n' to see what state things are in.
If plausible, mount it read-only, and archive it.
`fsck -y' it.
If all looks OK, `raidhotadd' the extra disk(s), and you are back in business.
