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Documentation for mdadm bad block support
I've read a bit about that mdadm (and the kernel) now have bad block support but I am having a hard time finding any useful documentation on this subject.
Is the bad block list for disk X duplicated ...
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Writing to a specific drive with software RAID4 on Linux
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I want to construct a software RAID-like array with 2 storage devices plus one parity device, where the parity device maintains the XOR of the two other ...
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how to boot without assemblying raid arrays (or assembling them correctly)
I had one debian 6 system with two harddisks on raid1 set up via mdadm. built on simple partitions (/dev/sdb3, /dev/sdc3). at least on the old system, everything is tied up via UUIDs.
then i inserted ...
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Do a Re-Build During a Re-Shape?
On my Linux software RAID 6 array, I'm currently mid-reshape and 2 drives have been marked as failed. I've swapped them out and added new ones to the array, which are currently marked as spares. The ...
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Linux RAID Re-Shape Stopped
For the past 8 hours my mdadm re-shape process has been stuck. The output is:
Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [multipath]
md0 : active raid6 sdo[11] sdn[12]...
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How do I reinitialise a failed RAID 5 drive using terminal on Ubuntu Server
I've currently put together a new system and part of that has been creating a software RAID 5 using 'mdadm' in Ubuntu Server.
I successfully got to the point where I create the array using:
sudo ...
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mdadm RAID Fast Setup with Empty Drives?
I am recreating some RAID5 disks as RAID6 with mdadm. There is no data on the drives that I care about.
Setting up RAID takes a while to setup the shape - I accept that when there there is data that ...
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Can I use an entire drive for as a software raid member?
Can I use /dev/sda and /dev/sdb for my RADI1 configuration?
Or do I first have to partition both with a single Linux raid partition?
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How-to change the name of an MD device (mdadm)
Here is the output from mdadm -Esv:
ARRAY /dev/md127 level=raid0 num-devices=2 UUID=d89d9d45:9a420812:c44c77eb:7ee19756
devices=/dev/sdb8,/dev/sda8
This is a v0.90 array. The question is as ...
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Recover Linux software RAID5 array after server upgrade
I recently upgraded a server from Fedora 6 to Fedora 14. In addition to the main hard drive where the OS is installed, I have 3 1TB hard drives configured for RAID5 (via software). After the upgrade, ...
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Raid1 with active and spare partition
I am having the following problem with a RAID1 software raid partition on my Ubuntu system (10.04 LTS, 2.6.32-24-server in case it matters).
One of my disks (sdb5) reported I/O errors and was ...
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mdadm device missing
After a reboot my /dev/md0 device was missing. This is a RAID-1 array from two partitions of two harddrives. On each of the harddrives is another partition, which together belong to dev/md1. However, ...
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Paritions "appear" in my raid 1 array after reboot, and the partitions in the array have changed names
I am moving my Ubuntu install to lvm over raid 1. I created the arrays with only 1 disk initially, planning to add the second disk later. I got the files moved and the system booted up succesfully on ...
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How to get an inactive RAID device working again?
After booting, my RAID1 device (/dev/md_d0 *) sometimes goes in some funny state and I cannot mount it.
* Originally I created /dev/md0 but it has somehow changed itself into /dev/md_d0.
# mount /...
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Creating a RAID1 partition with mdadm on Ubuntu
I'm trying to set up a RAID1 partition on my Ubuntu 9.10 workstation.
On this dual-boot system, Ubuntu is running from a separate drive (/dev/sdc - an SSD that is quite small, which is why I need ...
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