Resync'n in RAID 5 is a long wait, especially if you have a large RAID volume. You might want to consider moving to RAID 1+0. You get lesser space, but it is faster when in "degraded mode" and during resyncing -- HDD is relatively cheap nowadays.
Also, Gutsy is nearing it's EOL. Consider dist-upgrading to Hardy (still has 2 years of support left). --- mike t. ________________________________ From: jan gestre <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 3, 2009 11:35:43 Subject: Re: [plug] repairing raid5 on both gutsy and heron Did it using SystemRescue CD, btw the filesystem is ext3, gutsy force fsck during start up, everything is now back the way it was. On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:55 AM, greek ordono <[email protected]> wrote: have you tried recovery from cd? if the arrays are detected by the rescue cd then fsck the filesystem. are you using XFS? --- On Fri, 4/3/09, jan gestre <[email protected]> wrote: From: jan gestre <[email protected]> Subject: [plug] repairing raid5 on both gutsy and heron To: "Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, April 3, 2009, 8:17 AM 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 _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph -- http://jangestre.wordpress.com
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