Couldn't you just print out a hexdump of the drives on paper and peruse the data manually for the next few million years?
But, not to make light -- I'm not an expert on RAID, but here's a diary posted to a forum that sounds something a little similar to what's going on with you, and he solved his problem: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/servers/77867-eeek-cant-assemble-degraded-dirty-raid6-array.html On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 3:04 PM, lrhorer <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't have a way to image 10 Terrabytes worth of drives. I've > gotten the backup system back online, but that still leaves quite a > few large files I will have to recover by other means unless I can get > this array to start. > > On Dec 23, 10:30 am, "Robert Citek" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 2:28 PM, lrhorer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > How can I force mdadm to assemble and run at least 8 of the drives? > > > > I don't know and I'm not sure if you want to do that, yet. There may > > be a legitimate reason mdadm is refusing to assemble. > > > > > To answer the obvious question, I do have a backup > > > system, but it failed 3 days ago, and it's going to be a while before > > > the backup system can be repaired. > > > > Sounds like that means you do not have a backup. How comfortable do > > you feel working on these drives without a safety net? If you feel a > > tad nervous, you might want to consider imaging all the drives. > > > > Regards, > > - Robert > > > -- Daniel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
