Archive for January, 2009

Enough said

Saturday, January 17th, 2009
md0 : active raid5 sdd1[1] sdi1[0] sde1[5] sdc1[4] sdg1[3] sdh1[2]
      2441919680 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [6/6] [UUUUUU]

Easier than it looked

Friday, January 16th, 2009

So far, the rebuild process is going along well.  Later on the 14th, I went through the hardware on the system, thinking perhaps a controller had died, or a power splitter had failed.  Neither was the case, as I had forgotten that I don’t have any controllers with only two disks plugged in, and the box isn’t actually using any splitters at all.  I went through the whole thing and cleaned it out and checked all of the connections, and swapped a few SATA cables that seemed to be iffy just to be safe.

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Oh, fun.

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Woke up this morning, and my fileserver had emailed me this:

md0 : active raid5 sdh1[6](F) sdd1[5] sdc1[4] sdf1[3] sdg1[2] sdi1[7](F)
      2441919680 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [6/4] [__UUUU]

Looks like I get a trial-by-fire of MD RAID recovery tonight, once I figure out what broke.