On Sat, 27 May 2000, Piete Brooks wrote:
> > I had a failure where 2 of the disks out of 4 is marked bad.
> < (by superblock update time inconsistency) Do i have chance to recover
> > from this ? thanx in advance..
>
> This should be in the FAQ ...
Section 6.1 in the HOWTO describes this scenario.
> *** I have never used RAID5 for real.
> *** I have seen this suggestion before, and I agree it is probably the best
> *** you can do !
>
> If you think you have a set of disks which will make up a degraded array,
> then cross your fingers, and go for it !
>
> Set up a raidtab entry **WITH GREAT CARE** specifying the minimal set as
> above, with the oldest partitions `raid-failed'. Now create the device.
> This will write a new set of consistent PSBs.
Correct.
>
> Do an `fsck -n' to see what state things are in.
>
> If plausible, mount it read-only, and archive it.
>
> `fsck -y' it.
>
> If all looks OK, `raidhotadd' the extra disk(s), and you are back in business.
Yep.
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