Re: RAID5: mkraid --force /dev/md0 doesn't work properly

[Jakob Østergaard]

On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 07:51:25PM -0500, Evan Harris wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the fast reply!
> 
> I'm not sure I understand why drive 5 should be failed.  It is one of the
> four disks with the most recently correct superblocks.  The disk with the
> oldest superblock is #1.  Can you point me to documentation which explains
> this better?  I'm a little afraid of doing that without reading more on it,
> since it seems to mark yet another of the 4 remaining "good" drives as
> "bad".

Oh, sorry,   of course the oldest disk should be marked as failed.

But the way you mark a disk failed is to replace "raid-disk" with "failed-disk".

What you did in your configuration was to say that sde1 was disk 1, and sdi1 was
disk 5 *AND* disk 1 *AND* it was failed.

Replace "raid-disk" with "failed-disk" for the device that you want to mark
as failed.  Don't touch the numbers.

Cheers,

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