How to do a recovery of a degraded RAID1
Phillip Susi
psusi at cfl.rr.com
Wed Aug 22 20:54:04 UTC 2007
Phillip Susi wrote:
> Once the system is up and running, the kernel should copy the primary
> drive's contents to the secondary one's over time. Eventually they will
> actually be in sync and used normally, but currently there is no process
> to update the metadata on disk. I would say break out a hex editor and
> modify the metadata to indicate that the array is in a clean state.
Actually, now that I think about it... something seems off... my
understanding was that dmraid currently never updates the on disk
metadata, but if that is the case, then how can the disks stay in sync
in the face of a crash? If one disk gets updated and then the power
fails, when the system restarts, it has no way of knowing that one of
the disks is out of sync.
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