On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:07:37 +1100, "Alex Samad" <a...@samad.com.au> said: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 07:46:08PM -0800, whollyg...@letterboxes.org > wrote: > > > > On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:45:56 +0000, "John Robinson" > > <john.robin...@anonymous.org.uk> said: > > > On 09/01/2009 02:41, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > But, this has all become moot anyway. When I put the original, smaller > > drives back in, hoping to do the grow op overagain, I was faced with a > > similar problem assembling the array, so I'm guessing the problem > > caused by something other than the grow. I put the larger drives in, > > zeroed them, and am in the process of recreating the array and > > file systems to be populated from backups. > > just fell into same boat, 3 drives in a 10 drive raid6 died at the same > time on me, and I was unable to recreate the raid6 :( so back to the > backup machine :) > > to answer your question about the smaller disks, there is an option with > create that says the drives are okay and not to prep them > > --assume-clean > > so you can recreate the array without over writing stuff
I wonder if that would have helped with the larger drives. Too late:) The smaller drives shouldn't have been bad. All I did to them was fail them one by one and replace them with the larger ones. I was only trying to assemble them not recreate anything. Thanks anyway. The docs left some doubt in my mind about --assume-clean. I'll keep that in mind for the future. cheers, wg -- whollyg...@letterboxes.org -- http://www.fastmail.fm - One of many happy users: http://www.fastmail.fm/docs/quotes.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
