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From: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Subject: Re: RAID 5 On Linux
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 11:05:40 +1000
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In-Reply-To: message from c4c3m@oke.net.id on Friday July 25
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On Friday July 25, c4c3m@oke.net.id wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> Let me introduce my self, my name is Hendri, i'm application
> administrator at
> www.6221.net.I find your email from the source code, i try to solve my
> self but
> it seems i must contact you personally to ask your help about my
> problem.That
> Problem are :I had installed RH 6.2 on IBM Netfinity 5100, it seems ok
> for 1
> year till today, the partition  doesn't Work, i have 6 partition that
> doesnt
> alive.4 partition contain about Oracle Data, and 3 2 more is /usr
> partition(From
> Now On, i think its a very Bad Idea to locate RAID 5 to /usr :(( )then i
> discovered /dev/md1 - /dev/md6 won't work, and the error message on
> /proc/mdstat
> wont show up.i can "reconfigure" at all, what should i do for saving
> all those
> data, because i dont have any backup
> the md modules already loaded, because some partition, for example md0
> is up and
> can be mounted as /, and /proc/mdstat show some information that inform
> any
> partition that already sucess to load, such as / -> md0, /home -> md9
> beside
> that, mdx partition doesnt show any information.
> Could i recover that partition
> (which doesnt alive?)?

There isn't really enough information here to see what is happening.
Could you run
   mdadm -Eb /dev/sd*
and
   mdadm -E /dev/sd*

and send the output.

If you don't have mdadm, you can get it from
   http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/

NeilBrown

> 
> Created md5
> md : superblock update time inconsistency -- using the most recent one
> md : kicking non - fresh sdc10 from array !
> md : kicking non - fresh sdc10 from array !
> md : md5 : raid array is not clean -- Starting background reconstruction
> md5 : max total readhead window set to 512k
> raid 5 : not enough operational devices for md5 (2/3 failed)
> raid 5 : failed to run raid set md5
> do_md_run() returned -22
> md5 stopped
> 
> /proc/mdstat
> 
> Personalities : [raid1][raid5] read_ahead 1024 sectors
> md0 : active raid1 sdb1p0[ sda[1] 1566208 blocks [2/2][UU]
> md9 : active raid5 sdc4[2] sdc3[1] sdc1[0] 995140 blocks level 5, 64k
> chunk,
> algorithm 0[3/3][UUU]
> md2 : active raid5 sdc7[2] sda7[1] 1043968 blocks level 5, 64 k chunk,
> algorithm
> 0[3/2][_UU]
> md7 : active raid5 sdc12[2] sdb12[0] sda12[1] 819072 blocks level 5,
> 64k chunk,
> algorithm 0[3/3][UUU]
> md8 : active raid5 sdc13[2] sdb13[0] sda13[1] 1268864 blocks level 5,
> 64k chunk,
> algorithm 0[3/3] [UUU]
> unused devices : <none>/2][_UU]] [UUU]e raid5 sdc12[2] sdb12[0]
> sda12[1] 819072
> blocks c13[2] sdb13[0] sda13[1] 1268864 blocks level 5, 64k chunk,
> algorithm
> 0[3/3] [UUU]e raid5 sdc12[2] sdb12[0] sda12[1] 819072 blocks level 5,
> 64k chunk,
> 0[3/2][_UU]
> 
> but in my /etc/fstab contain :
> /dev/md0 until /dev/md9
> so in /proc/mdstat doesnt apear beside md0, md9, md2, md7 and md8
> 
> When i look at the source
> #define OUT_OF_DATE KERN_ERR \
> "md: superblock update time inconsistency -- using the most recent
> one\n"
> md : kicking non - fresh sdc10 from array !
> md : kicking non - fresh sdc10 from array !
> menunjukkan ke source
> if (ev1 < ev2) {
> printk(KERN_WARNING "md: kicking non-fresh %s from
> array!\n",
> partition_name(rdev->dev));
> kick_rdev_from_array(rdev);
> continue;
> }
> 
> Thanks for the attention
> 
> 
> 
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