Messages in this thread | | | From | Neil Brown <> | Date | Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:21:57 +1000 | Subject | Re: Problem recovering a failed RIAD5 array with 4-drives. |
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On Thursday July 12, LinuxKernel@jamesplace.net wrote: > > I don't know the original order of the array before all the problems started. > > Is there a way to determine the original order?
No, unless you have some old kernel logs of the last time it assembled the array properly. The one thing that "--create" does destroy is the information about any previous array that the drives were a part of.
> > The order that --detail is showing now is the order that appeared after > issuing the command is it is in the email. (ie: a b c d)
Odd. I cannot reproduce it. I suggest you try different arrangements (of the 3 good drives and the word 'missing') until you find one that 'fsck -n' likes.
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