I've found that the preferred minor is the raid device number, however the normal assemble won't do, I had to append --force to do the job. The server is now back to normal. :)
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 9:47 AM, jan gestre <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I have two file server that's running both gutsy and heron respectively, > both of them have RAID5 devices (Linux RAID) and both of the arrays seems to > break now and then, I have no problem recovering and repairing the array on > heron but I can't get it done on gutsy. Basically I just removed the > declared faulty drive and re-add the same and assemble the array, but this > same technique won't work on gutsy. I want to re-create the array on the > gutsy box but I have some apprehension, number 1 of which what if I would > never be able to recover the data. The gutsy box has three raid devices, > md0, md1 and md2, I'm quite sure that md0 is my boot partition and is on > RAID1, and both md1 and md2 are RAID5, since I don't remember which RAID > device is my /home and / partition my question is would it matter if I > re-create and assemble md1 with the following devices (sdb2 sdc2 and sdd2) > and md2 with (sdb5, sdc5 and sdd5) respectively if the original members is > the other way around? (in Tagalog nagkabaligtad?) I'm afraid I might lose > the files if I made this mistake. > BTW, the gutsy box won't boot normally it goes directly to initramfs. > > Any suggestions? > > TIA. > > Jan > -- http://jangestre.wordpress.com
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