Re: Failed --grow. Recovery possible?

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From: Michael Evans
Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 2:07 pm

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Stephan Stachurski <ses1984@gmail.com> wrote:

As Niel Brown stated in his reply, the issue is more complicated than that.

Your array has entered a less than known state; likely while working
with the critical section.  Some parts may be stored as before, while
others may be stored as things should look now.  This is why the
critical section backup and possible recovery is very important.
Please follow Niel Brown's directions /very/ carefully.  You probably
also want to save the start of each device.

dd if=/dev/container of=someplace/array_dev_X.raw bs=1024k count=64
 for each device in the array (saving to separate files) would
probably be a tolerable safety net to start with.  You could also load
these much smaller segments in hex-editors more easily.
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Failed --grow. Recovery possible?, Stephan Stachurski, (Thu Mar 18, 6:52 pm)
Re: Failed --grow. Recovery possible?, Stephan Stachurski, (Thu Mar 18, 6:57 pm)
Re: Failed --grow. Recovery possible?, Neil Brown, (Thu Mar 18, 9:02 pm)
Re: Failed --grow. Recovery possible?, Stephan Stachurski, (Tue Mar 23, 12:53 pm)
Re: Failed --grow. Recovery possible?, Michael Evans, (Tue Mar 23, 2:07 pm)
Re: Failed --grow. Recovery possible?, Stephan Stachurski, (Tue Mar 23, 9:46 pm)