From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 11 13:11:50 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7191416A4CE for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:11:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from imap.univie.ac.at (mailbox-lmtp.univie.ac.at [131.130.1.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8000C43D31 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:11:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from le@FreeBSD.org) Received: from pcle.cc.univie.ac.at (pcle.cc.univie.ac.at [131.130.2.107]) by imap.univie.ac.at (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iABDBZMS477788; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:11:41 +0100 Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:11:39 +0100 (CET) From: Lukas Ertl To: freebsd@newmillennium.net.au In-Reply-To: <01cc01c4c7ef$1eb55d10$0201000a@riker> Message-ID: <20041111141028.G649@korben.in.tern> References: <01cc01c4c7ef$1eb55d10$0201000a@riker> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-DCC-ZID-Univie-Metrics: mx8 4249; Body=2 Fuz1=2 Fuz2=2 cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Recovering Gvinum RAID5 after a crash X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:11:50 -0000 On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 freebsd@newmillennium.net.au wrote: > I tried issuing a 'start' request, and it appeared to start initializing > the disks!! So, I killed the machine and left the array unmounted. I've > got duplicate data of most of the stuff on there, so its not a big deal, > but there should be a way to get the array back up without initializing > the disks. If two disks went down, you can't recover. Of course, if you know that the data is OK, then 'setstate' would help here. I'll have a look. cheers, le -- Lukas Ertl http://homepage.univie.ac.at/l.ertl/ le@FreeBSD.org http://people.freebsd.org/~le/