also sprach Pierre Vignéras <pie...@vigneras.name> [2010.04.20.1317 +0200]: > Apr 12 20:10:02 phobos mdadm[3157]: Fail event detected on md device > /dev/md2, > component device /dev/sdf1 > Apr 12 20:11:02 phobos mdadm[3157]: SpareActive event detected on md device > /dev/md2, component device /dev/sdf1 > > And at that time I was neither logged in nor did I touch to > that NFS server (neither the USB drives, nor the server itself). Actually, > I discovered the problem the day after. So the first question is: > > is it normal that after a failure detected on /dev/sdf1 it becomes > a spare (again if I understand the syslog message correctly)?
It seems like the drive goes offline and comes back, and then I think it would be normal. Are there no kernel messages about this? > what should I do to recover my data? You suggest to remove > previous one. I don't get how: > > mdadm /dev/md2 --remove ?? (according to /proc/mdstat, /dev/sdf1 > and /dev/sdc1 are now spares). Try mdadm --remove /dev/md2 /dev/sdc1 mdadm --add /dev/md2 /dev/sdc1 mdadm --remove /dev/md2 /dev/sdf1 mdadm --add /dev/md2 /dev/sdf1 and post all the output. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madd...@d.o> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems la lune, c'est comme les canards il faut aimer caresser les chats pour avoir envie d'y aller.
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