[Wylug-discuss] Help needed with 'failed' Linux software RAID 10

[Tim Fletcher]

On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 14:24 +0100, Dave Fisher wrote:
> Hi Tim,
> 
> Thanks for replying, but I think you've been mislead by some
> unecessary information from /proc/mdstat
> 
> md0 is a complete red herring ... an old array which was removed (and
> partitions reformatted). It should no longer show up ... but does so,
> because I forgot about an old spare which had dropped out.  ... just
> ignore it
> 
> There is no md2.
> 
> There is only one RAID array. It is md1. It is arranged as RAID 10. It
> consists essentially of 4 partitions (sd{f,g,h,i}4) plus a spare
> (sdj4).
> 
> I don't know how the four partitions are paired.

Yes I released that after I had put a lot of the stuff down, I meant to
strip out the unneeded info. If you look further on I move on to say
that I think I know how they arrays are paired and to give you a few
ideas.

-- 
Tim Fletcher
Learning Technologies Manager - Parrs Wood High School