Re: Raid5 says it's rebuilding, but it lies :)

2006-04-19 Thread David Greaves
Neil Brown wrote: On Wednesday April 19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a raid5 configuration with 4 disks, of which all were active. My system froze due to a separate issue (firewire), so I had to power cycle. In the past, I've always been able to recover with fsck on /dev/md0, however

Re: Raid5 says it's rebuilding, but it lies :)

2006-04-19 Thread Karl Schricker
mdadm -S /dev/md0 mdadm -A /dev/md0 --force /dev/sd[abd] mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/sdc All the command line tricks in the world will not change the fact that his IEEE1394 drive subsystem is presenting one or more of his drives as read only devices.. Well, the command line tricks

Re: Raid5 says it's rebuilding, but it lies :)

2006-04-19 Thread Karl Schricker
All the command line tricks in the world will not change the fact that his IEEE1394 drive subsystem is presenting one or more of his drives as read only devices.. Well, this turns out to have been true. The IEEE1394 package I installed included an eth1394 kernel module, which seems to have

Raid5 says it's rebuilding, but it lies :)

2006-04-18 Thread Karl Schricker
I have a raid5 configuration with 4 disks, of which all were active. My system froze due to a separate issue (firewire), so I had to power cycle. In the past, I've always been able to recover with fsck on /dev/md0, however this time I was not, and I am unable to re-assemble the array now. I'm

Re: Raid5 says it's rebuilding, but it lies :)

2006-04-18 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday April 19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a raid5 configuration with 4 disks, of which all were active. My system froze due to a separate issue (firewire), so I had to power cycle. In the past, I've always been able to recover with fsck on /dev/md0, however this time I was not,