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Date:      Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:05:29 +1100
From:      <freebsd@newmillennium.net.au>
To:        <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Recovering Gvinum RAID5 after a crash
Message-ID:  <01cc01c4c7ef$1eb55d10$0201000a@riker>

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Ok, my machine just locked up, and after rebooting, two of the four
drives in the RAID5 showed up as stale. I tried issuing a
'rebuildparity', but its not implemented, and neither it seems is
'setstate'.

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.

Of course, I could be mistaken and the RAID5 rebuild could be showing up
as 'I', in which case it should should probably be changed to 'R' or
something to avoid confusion.

-- 
Alastair D'Silva           mob: 0413 485 733
Networking Consultant      fax: 0413 181 661
New Millennium Networking  web: http://www.newmillennium.net.au



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