Unexpected failure mode

[brad]

Dear Lazyweb,

Let's imagine for a second, hypothetically, that some drunk girl sees Blinkenlights on the RAID array in your garage and says (reportedly) "Oh neat, hot swap!", and proceeds to remove 3 drives from a particular 5-disk RAID-5 array, instantly killing the party music and a quite a bit of other data [accessibility].

Hypothetically,

Comments

[scsi]

Maybe try:

mdadm -A --force /dev/md0

Will sync the superblocks. Assuming thats whats wrong. Dont hate me for hosing your array if this fails.

[scsi]

er.. /dev/md1

You get the idea.

fun fact

[foobarbazbax]

Grass Valley is in Nevada County, which is shaped like a revolver pointed at Nevada because those bastards ripped off their name.

Re: fun fact

[brad]

Hah, nice.

[supersat]

Drunk people? :)

[terrajen]

no, drunk people don't pull shit like that. i'm an expert on the subject.

[dan_lane]

hypothetically I'd be looking for a place to dispose of said drunk girl's body.

[crschmidt]

I was going to say that "Hypothetically, I'd have lost myself a party guest for the future." Your solution is slightly more dramatic.

[flipzagging]

If only there was someone who was both a body disposal expert and a Linux filesystem guru!

Oh wait.

[hoist2k]

That was the funniest blog comment I've read in 2007. Genius!

[byron]

Hypothetically my first question would be the best way to dispose of a body followed up by a question about RAID repair.