Adding misc that somehow fell off...
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 08:51:18AM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote:
> Assuming the drives weren't hurt you can reassemble the RAID 1 with the
> -C force option. Do something along the lines of:
>
> bioctl -c 1 -C force -l /dev/sd2a,/dev/sd3a softraid0
>
> That will overwrite the current stale metadata with new one. Make sure
> you fsck the filesystem before mounting it (even if it says it is ok!
> use some force to convince it to check it);
>
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 02:32:49PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm currently using softraid(4) on my 4.2-stable(*) I386 machine and
> > yesterday I ran into a problem: after a system freeze (most probably
> > caused by a malfunctioning onboard SATA controller) softraid found
> > corrupted metadata on one of my two disks in the RAID1 array I assembled
> > (sorry, I don't have the correct error message handy) thus the kernel
> > didn't create the softraid0 device.
> >
> > Don't get me wrong I'm not complaining about that (as the manpage
> > already told me that this will be the outcome of a failed chunk) but I'm
> > wondering if there's a manual procedure I follow to reassemble the raid
> > manually without data loss.
> >
> > TIA,
> > Frank.
> >
> > *) actually almost stable as I had to build my own softraid enabled
> > kernel based on GENERIC
> >
> > --
> > What can you use used tampons for? Tea bags for vampires.
> > openBSD - Can't fight the Systemagic. \ber tragic.
> > Frank Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Politicians do it to everyone.
