Re: only 4 spares and no access to my data - solved

2006-07-15 Thread Karl Voit
Molle Bestefich molle.bestefich at gmail.com writes: My best guess is that it's OK and you won't loose data if you run --zero-superblock on /dev/sd[abcd] and then create an array on /dev/sd[abcd]1, but I do find it odd that it suddenly can't find superblocks on /dev/sd[abcd]1. OK, I tried

Re: only 4 spares and no access to my data

2006-07-13 Thread Karl Voit
Molle Bestefich molle.bestefich at gmail.com writes: Karl Voit wrote: if (super == NULL) { fprintf(stderr, Name : No suitable drives found for %s\n, mddev); [...] Well I guess, the message will be shown, if the superblock is not found. Yes. No clue why, my buest guess

Re: only 4 spares and no access to my data

2006-07-10 Thread Karl Voit
Molle Bestefich molle.bestefich at gmail.com writes: From the paste bin: 443: root at ned ~ # mdadm --examine /dev/sd[abcd] Shows that all 4 devices are ACTIVE SYNC Please note that there is no 1 behind sda up to sdd! Then: 568: root at ned ~ # mdadm --examine /dev/sd[abcd]1

Re: only 4 spares and no access to my data

2006-07-10 Thread Karl Voit
Molle Bestefich molle.bestefich at gmail.com writes: You should probably upgrade at some point, there's always a better chance that devels will look at your problem if you're running the version that they're sitting with.. OK, I upgraded my kernel and mdadm: uname -a: Linux ned 2.6.13-grml

Re: only 4 spares and no access to my data

2006-07-10 Thread Karl Voit
Henrik Holst henrik.holst at idgmail.se writes: Karl Voit wrote: [snip] Well this is because of the false(?) superblocks of sda-sdd in comparison to sda1 to sdd1. I don't understand this. Me neither *g* This is the hint of a friend of mine, who is lot more experienced with sw-raids

Re: only 4 spares and no access to my data

2006-07-10 Thread Karl Voit
Henrik Holst henrik.holst at idgmail.se writes: I don't understand this. Do you have more than a single partion on sda? Is sda1 occupying the entire disk? since the superblock is the /last/ 128Kb (I'm assuming 128*1024 bytes) the superblocks should be one and the same. I should have

Re: only 4 spares and no access to my data

2006-07-10 Thread Karl Voit
Molle Bestefich molle.bestefich at gmail.com writes: Karl Voit wrote: OK, I upgraded my kernel and mdadm: uname -a: Linux ned 2.6.13-grml #1 Tue Oct 4 18:24:46 CEST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux That release is 10 months old. Newest release is 2.6.17. Sorry, my fault. dpkg -i kernel does

Re: only 4 spares and no access to my data

2006-07-10 Thread Karl Voit
Molle Bestefich molle.bestefich at gmail.com writes: Karl Voit wrote: Before that, I'd like to check again now with the latest kernel and the latest mdadm: # mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 mdadm: No suitable drives found for /dev/md0 [ ... snip

only 4 spares and no access to my data

2006-07-09 Thread Karl Voit
Hi! I created a sw-raid md0 and a LVM above with four 250GB Samsung SATA disks a couple of months ago. I am not an raid expert but I thought I could handle it with a little help of my friends from grml: Andreas jimmy Gredler and Michael mika Prokop. , | md0 future mds (PV:s on