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Unable to reassemble md raid on drives pulled from ReadyNas Duo v1

I'm toying with a ReadyNAS device that I've recently acquired. It is a SPARC-based box, and it runs linux. As device is pretty slow, I've pulled one drive out of array, hoping to populate it with ...
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Mounting External Intel Raid Device on Linux Failing, No Suitable Superblock and Read Past End

I have a hard-disk from a dead machine that I'm trying to mount on my Linux machine. For reference, I'm using Fedora 39 and mdadm v4.2. First, I tried just mounting it, correctly showing it's a RAID ...
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2 Disks Suddenly Showing as Spares on Raid 5 Array

I have a raid5 array in a Seagate Blackarmor 440 nas that suddenly started showing disks 1 and 4 as "failed". I moved all of the drives over to a Ubuntu box and tried to assemble the array ...
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How to wait for mdadm RAID1 resync process to fully complete?

I currently have a logic to wait for the resync process to finish by looking at /sys/block/mdXXX/md/raid_state to be clean and assume that the resync has finished. However, I don't think this is ...
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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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mdadm raid cretion: apparently superblock not written to disk

I am in exactly the same predicament as MDADM raid “lost” after reboot: I followed this giude to setup a raid-1 array with two disks (I was working in a recovery shell, so no "sudo"): mdadm --create ...
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How do I eliminate file write latency spikes on mdadm raid0?

High Level Problem Summary We are working on an application that requires high throughput to RAID0 for extended periods of time. There are up to 8 independent 5 GB/s data streams being written to ...
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Mount & Access DATA in RAID1 configured HDD outside of Synology Box on Linux [mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock]

Background My Two-Disk Synology DS14+ won't power on and I want to access the files stored in the HDDs on my Ubuntu computer. I tried following the official guide on Synology's FAQ but I always get ...
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Assemble raid6 array from spares only

This question is related to Managing raid6 device with pacemaker, but nothing in the question linked is relevant to this question, except the fact that Pacemaker is involved. For the purpose of this ...
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Take one disk of external mdadm data raid 1 to travel

I have a mdadm software raid 1 on external disks with media data. For travel I want to take the data with me. I imagine to set the raid and the underlying filesystem in readonly mode and take just ...
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Disable warning from mdadm for “degraded” RAID1 with missing drive

I recently had a server outage due to a failed drive. Because of that I set up the server with a new SSD in RAID1 this time but until I managed to get another SSD drive the mdadm-based RAID1 runs with ...
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Linux MD software raid stripe cache size

From what I can piece together the /sys/block/md0/md/stripe_cache_size is for raid5 and 6 set at a very low default value to avoid starving machines for memory. By increasing this value you can get a ...
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Why make a partition at all for mdadm/raid?

i have 4 disks, sd[a,b,f,g] of various sizes that I want to 'merge' together. I am using mdadm to achieve this. my question is, what's the difference between -- mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=...
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mdadm - Raid 1 arrays do not assemble after reboot

I rebooted my server after creating 3 raid 1 arrays with mdadm, and after rebooting, systemd was spitting out errors about the raid devices timing out when trying to assemble them at boot. I was given ...
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How to restore my RAID5 after mistakenly failing one of the drives?

I have a RAID5 on Xubuntu 20.04, created with mdadm. I failed one of the three drives by mistake. The array is still working, but I get errors or responses I do not understand from my attempts to ...

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