Re: getting data from degraded RAID 1 boot disk

2017-02-01 Thread Olivier Cherrier
On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 08:32:44AM -0500, ji...@devio.us wrote: > On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 01:33:54PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 04:12:26AM -0500, Jiri B wrote: > > > Should have kernel automatically create 'sd4' for degraded RAID 1 > > > but it does not? > > > > I be

Re: getting data from degraded RAID 1 boot disk

2017-02-01 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 08:32:44AM -0500, Jiri B wrote: > On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 01:33:54PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 04:12:26AM -0500, Jiri B wrote: > > > Should have kernel automatically create 'sd4' for degraded RAID 1 > > > but it does not? > > > > I believe it

Re: getting data from degraded RAID 1 boot disk

2017-02-01 Thread Jiri B
On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 01:33:54PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 04:12:26AM -0500, Jiri B wrote: > > Should have kernel automatically create 'sd4' for degraded RAID 1 > > but it does not? > > I believe it will auto assemble if the disk is present at boot time. ^^ This do

Re: getting data from degraded RAID 1 boot disk

2017-02-01 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 04:12:26AM -0500, Jiri B wrote: > Should have kernel automatically create 'sd4' for degraded RAID 1 > but it does not? I believe it will auto assemble if the disk is present at boot time. But not when you hotplug the disk.

Re: getting data from degraded RAID 1 boot disk

2017-02-01 Thread Jiri B
On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 11:55:21PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 05:23:10PM -0500, Jiri B wrote: > > I have a disk which used to be boot disk of a degraded RAID 1 (softraid). > > The second disk is totally gone. > > > > I don't want to use this disk as RAID 1 disk anymore

Re: getting data from degraded RAID 1 boot disk

2017-01-31 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 05:23:10PM -0500, Jiri B wrote: > I have a disk which used to be boot disk of a degraded RAID 1 (softraid). > The second disk is totally gone. > > I don't want to use this disk as RAID 1 disk anymore, just to get data > from it. > > I'm asking because when I plugged the di

getting data from degraded RAID 1 boot disk

2017-01-31 Thread Jiri B
I have a disk which used to be boot disk of a degraded RAID 1 (softraid). The second disk is totally gone. I don't want to use this disk as RAID 1 disk anymore, just to get data from it. I'm asking because when I plugged the disk, bioctl said 'not enough disks'. Do we really have to necessary re