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SubjectRe: Problem recovering a failed RIAD5 array with 4-drives. --RESOLVED
James 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.
>>
>> NeilBrown
>>
>>
>
> I don't understand how the order of --detail was different than the command
> line on my system, however....
>
> YOU ARE A LIFE SAVER!!!
>
> After going through 21 combinations, beginning to lose all hope and plummeting
> into eternal despair, combo 22 worked. The array is up and working. All the
> data (1.3Tb) is there and I'm probably the happiest character on the mail
> list today.
>
> Thanks a bunch for your help.

Funnily enough someone else was having a similar problem on the linux-raid list
at the same time

Here's a script that may be useful to others in this predicament - a hell of a
lot quicker than doing it by hand...

The 'is the filesystem safe' test probably wants improving from a read-only mount...

http://linux-raid.osdl.org/index.php/RAID_Recovery
http://linux-raid.osdl.org/index.php/Permute_array.pl

David
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