Re: [GENERAL] OT - 2 of 4 drives in a Raid10 array failed - Any chance of recovery?

2009-10-21 Thread Ow Mun Heng
-Original Message- From: Greg Smith [mailto:gsm...@gregsmith.com] On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Scott Marlowe wrote: >> Actually, later models of linux have a direct RAID-10 level built in. >> I haven't used it. Not sure how it would look in /proc/mdstat either. >I think I actively block memor

Re: [GENERAL] OT - 2 of 4 drives in a Raid10 array failed - Any chance of recovery?

2009-10-21 Thread Greg Smith
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Scott Marlowe wrote: Actually, later models of linux have a direct RAID-10 level built in. I haven't used it. Not sure how it would look in /proc/mdstat either. I think I actively block memory of that because the UI on it is so cryptic and it's been historically much mor

Re: [GENERAL] OT - 2 of 4 drives in a Raid10 array failed - Any chance of recovery?

2009-10-20 Thread Greg Smith
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Craig Ringer wrote: You made an exact image of each drive onto new, spare drives with `dd' or a similar disk imaging tool before trying ANYTHING, right? Otherwise, you may well have made things worse, particularly since you've tried to resync the array. Even if the data wa

Re: [GENERAL] OT - 2 of 4 drives in a Raid10 array failed - Any chance of recovery?

2009-10-20 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Greg Smith wrote: > On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > >> Raid10 is supposed to be able to withstand up to 2 drive failures if the >> failures are from different sides of the mirror.  Right now, I'm not sure >> which drive belongs to which. How do I determi

Re: [GENERAL] OT - 2 of 4 drives in a Raid10 array failed - Any chance of recovery?

2009-10-20 Thread Greg Smith
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Raid10 is supposed to be able to withstand up to 2 drive failures if the failures are from different sides of the mirror. Right now, I'm not sure which drive belongs to which. How do I determine that? Does it depend on the output of /prod/mdstat and in

Re: [GENERAL] OT - 2 of 4 drives in a Raid10 array failed - Any chance of recovery?

2009-10-20 Thread Craig Ringer
On 20/10/2009 4:41 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: >> I have a 4 disk Raid10 array running on linux MD raid. >> Sda / sdb / sdc / sdd >> >> One fine day, 2 of the drives just suddenly decide to die on me. (sda and >> sdd) >> >> I've tried multiple methods to try to determine if I can get them back >> onl

Re: [GENERAL] OT - 2 of 4 drives in a Raid10 array failed - Any chance of recovery?

2009-10-20 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 1:11 AM, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Sorry guys, I know this is very off-track for this list, but google hasn't > been of much help. This is my raid array on which my PG data resides. > > I have a 4 disk Raid10 array running on linux MD raid. > Sda / sdb / sdc / sdd > > One fine d

[GENERAL] OT - 2 of 4 drives in a Raid10 array failed - Any chance of recovery?

2009-10-20 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Sorry guys, I know this is very off-track for this list, but google hasn't been of much help. This is my raid array on which my PG data resides. I have a 4 disk Raid10 array running on linux MD raid. Sda / sdb / sdc / sdd One fine day, 2 of the drives just suddenly decide to die on me. (sda and