Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1606 mails)

[Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@xxxxxxx>]

On 2008-08-31T11:02:49, Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > mdadm: failed to RUN_ARRAY /dev/md0: input/output error
> >
> > I can force mount /dev/sda2 or /dev /sdb1 to mount as ext3 and I can
> > read the data just fine.
>
> If the data is fine, I would assemble the array in degraded mode using
> just one of the two drives, then hot-add the 2nd one later. 

Exactly.

It's the only choice he has right now anyway, given that he has
corrupted the mirror by mounting the sda/sdb devices separately (they
now hold divergent data, and trying to assemble both into a mirror would
crash).

Backup the data. Start the mirror in degraded mode with one drive. Wipe
the other drive. Add it to the mirror (which will do a full resync).

And then don't do it again ;-)


Regards,
    Lars

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