Re: Rebuilding a degraded RAID5 softraid array

2017-06-20 Thread LÉVAI Dániel
LÉVAI Dániel @ 2017-06-20T10:22:27 +0200: > Joel Sing @ 2017-06-19T18:14:30 +0200: [...] Hit reply too fast. > > > You in fact gave the advice at a so lucky time, that I was about to > > > return the disk for a warranty replacement -- had I done that, I could > > > not have been able to repair

Re: Rebuilding a degraded RAID5 softraid array

2017-06-20 Thread LÉVAI Dániel
Joel Sing @ 2017-06-19T18:14:30 +0200: > On Friday 16 June 2017 10:11:20 LÉVAI Dániel wrote: > > Karel Gardas @ 2017-06-15T09:07:39 +0200: > > > On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 7:04 AM, LEVAI Daniel wrote: > > [...] > > > > > > Strangest thing is, if I boot with the 'bad' (=failing)

Re: Rebuilding a degraded RAID5 softraid array

2017-06-19 Thread Joel Sing
On Friday 16 June 2017 10:11:20 LÉVAI Dániel wrote: > Karel Gardas @ 2017-06-15T09:07:39 +0200: > > On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 7:04 AM, LEVAI Daniel wrote: > [...] > > > > Strangest thing is, if I boot with the 'bad' (=failing) drive as > > > part of the array, softraid brings the

Re: Rebuilding a degraded RAID5 softraid array

2017-06-16 Thread LÉVAI Dániel
Karel Gardas @ 2017-06-15T09:07:39 +0200: > On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 7:04 AM, LEVAI Daniel wrote: [...] > > Strangest thing is, if I boot with the 'bad' (=failing) drive as > > part of the array, softraid brings the volume online (albeit > > degraded) and I can even decrypt/mount

Re: Rebuilding a degraded RAID5 softraid array

2017-06-15 Thread Karel Gardas
> Have you had the same problem, in that softraid wouldn't assemble the > RAID volume with a missing disk? How did you "remove" the failed device > from the RAID array (ie. you 'add' the new disk with -R during rebuild, > but how do you 'remove' the failed/offline drive with eg. bioctl)? No, in

Re: Rebuilding a degraded RAID5 softraid array

2017-06-15 Thread LÉVAI Dániel
Karel Gardas @ 2017-06-15T09:07:39 +0200: > On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 7:04 AM, LEVAI Daniel wrote: > > Thanks Karel for pointing this out, you are in fact right, and > > nothing is wrong with the logging, I just forgot that I'm decrypting > > that device 'automatically' in

Re: Rebuilding a degraded RAID5 softraid array

2017-06-15 Thread Karel Gardas
On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 7:04 AM, LEVAI Daniel wrote: > Thanks Karel for pointing this out, you are in fact right, and nothing is > wrong with the logging, I just forgot that I'm decrypting that device > 'automatically' in rc.local. And the kernel log was from before this,

Re: Rebuilding a degraded RAID5 softraid array

2017-06-14 Thread LEVAI Daniel
From: Karel Gardas -- Sent: 2017.06.14 - 19:25 > On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 5:23 PM, LÉVAI Dániel wrote: >> sd8 at scsibus4 targ 2 lun 0: SCSI2 0/direct fixed >> sd8: 155872MB, 512 bytes/sector, 319227056 sectors > > Here

Re: Rebuilding a degraded RAID5 softraid array

2017-06-14 Thread Karel Gardas
On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 5:23 PM, LÉVAI Dániel wrote: > sd8 at scsibus4 targ 2 lun 0: SCSI2 0/direct fixed > sd8: 155872MB, 512 bytes/sector, 319227056 sectors Here is sd8 as crypto. > So the system disks (RAID1) are there, sd7l is decrypted as sd8 (so

Rebuilding a degraded RAID5 softraid array

2017-06-14 Thread LÉVAI Dániel
Hi! One of the disks of my softraid array of a four disk RAID5 has failed, so I went on and replaced it with an identical make/model, and now I'm trying to rebuild the RAID5 array: So far I've replaced the HDD, fdisk/disklabeled it exactly the same as the other drives: # fdisk sd4 <--- one