Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1696 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajohansson@xxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 19 July 2009 18:48:08 Leen de Braal wrote:
> Yes. I have been checking some more and I think Murphy's Law is at hand
> here. Some more info on what happened.
> This morning I changed one of the disks, because it had failed with more
> than 180 unrecoverable sectors.
> After rebooting, the array started rebuilding. Somewhere in
> /var/log/messages (had a tail -f on a terminal) I saw that the rebuild was
> done this afternoon. When checking /proc/mdstat I saw to my horror that
> sda had fallen of the array, sdc was active, and sde (the new disk) was
> also out of the array. So apparently while rebuilding, a second disk in
> the array broke.
> In more or less panic I rebooted, thinking the array might be started with
> sdc and the new sde as second, and sda as failed disk. But now it seems,
> that sde has not been able to finish the rebuild, so there I have a lost
> raid5 (probably).
>
> Anyone know of a way to get the data back?

I don't think there is a way. With raid5, if two drives break in an array, 
your data is lost. I suspect you need to restore from backup (I hope you have 
one)

Anders
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