[Solved] Failed raid

rbh · 2020-10-08 19:58:13

Hi all!

Had a bad day today:

I had to take down the server on the power. When booting up again, it booted to rescue mode, because of faulty raid.

Md2, was inactive. Ok, to re-add missing device and start array.
Md3, also inactive. "mdadm -D /dev/md3", says it is an raid 0 array!, with 4 working devices. But it should be an raid 5!

/etc/fstab contained another uuid than mdadm reported. Editet fstab.

I had an old /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf, with more info than just only array names and uuid. changed to that and have the info: "level=raid5 num-devices=4" after "ARRAY /dev/md/3" .

Fdisk reported the partions containing md3 to have an Linux File system. Changed the type to raid.

Mdadm still reports the array to be raid 0!.

Now I do not know what to do.

Last edited by rbh (2020-10-09 07:30:56)

rbh · 2020-10-08 22:31:34

I tested running

mdadm --assemble --verbose --run  --force /dev/md124 /dev/sda4 /dev/sdb4 /dev/sdc4 /dev/sdd4

The array started with disk a to c as raid5. Stopped it and added sdd4. Restarted pc. The partition was not mounted, had made an error in fstab. Now tre disks again, sda offline.

Well, it will be solved after refrreshing sleep..

rbh · 2020-10-09 07:30:26

After the server been started this morning, I after 20 min, checked raid, /dev/md3 had been started with 4 devices, active in raid 5.

mdadm reported:

~# mdadm --examine /dev/sd[a-d]4 | egrep 'Event|/dev/sd'
/dev/sda4:
         Events : 6687
/dev/sdb4:
         Events : 6686
/dev/sdc4:
         Events : 6686
/dev/sdd4:
         Events : 6686

Sda4 is back without more intervention...

#1 2020-10-08 19:58:13

[Solved] Failed raid

#2 2020-10-08 22:31:34

Re: [Solved] Failed raid

#3 2020-10-09 07:30:26

Re: [Solved] Failed raid

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