Re: URGENT: Need help rebuilding iir RAID5 array with failed drive

From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:30:54 -0700
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 4:22 AM, Søren Schmidt <sos_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On 29Jun, 2008, at 5:11 , Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>>
>>> I hate to bring this to you, but you will not have an intact filesystem
>>> when
>>> the rebuild is done, you have no parity data to rebuild from, just as the
>>> docs states.
>>>
>>> -Søren
>>
>> Just as you predicted, the disk(s) are unreadable still, even after
>> the rebuild (and I hope to hell that it didn't destroy/disturb any
>> data on the surviving members).
>>
>> I may just have to get it sent off for recovery (after I dd the
>> remaining members because there's still some usable data there --
>> bloody 2.7TB ... grr) -- apart from that I don't think I have a
>> choice.
>
> You wont get anything from that except a huge bill for nothing.

Why? If the thing was just treated like a RAID0 config (aka a huge
single disk), then why would I end up with a huge bill for nothing
(confused)? From what I can tell the drive was just defective
(purchased it 4 months ago and it looks like the controller card went
out), so fixing or replacing the controller card and setting up the
bad blocks properly on the new card (if necessary) should solve my
issue.

>> Oh, where's this "document" of which you speak all the time? I don't
>> see anything about parity support not being available in either the
>> geom or iir manpage, or the iir sourcecode. If someone needs a helping
>> hand inserting that logic into the kernel, I'll gladly assist so
>> others don't follow my footsteps and fsck up their data.
>>
>
> Would you please try to read what I write to you ?
>
> You still insist in mixing up ATA and IIR, it is two distinct drivers for
> different HW and with very different properties.
>
> For ATA docs just use "man ata" and it will show you the way.
> Shortcut to the raid part is  "man ataraid".

Yeah, I finally see what you mean (after reading the ataraid manpage).
The funny thing was that (I thought) iir was in place and functioning
a while back so I assumed "Hey, it's SCSI/cam supported -- I'm ok!".
Boy was I wrong >:(.

>> For once I wish I had been running Linux or Windows (at least) :(...
>
> Oooohhh, that one is soooo tempting..... 8^)

Yeah, yeah, I know. I'm just pissed at myself for not backing up my
critical data earlier.

-Garrett
Received on Sun Jun 29 2008 - 17:30:56 UTC

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