On Monday 27 March 2006 07:11, Alan Dayley wrote:
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> Nathan England wrote:
> > You are right, the raid software in linux wrote 1 drive then the next. I
> > think this is partially why the LVM2 stuff took over and that is being
> > used, while it seems to me the software raid has almost dissappeared.
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> That is different. Strictly speaking, what you describe here is *not*
> RAID 0. It is some kind of logical volume thing.
>
> The good news is that, in this case, all the data on the good drive
> should be contiguous and intact except for the end portions that are
> "completed" on the bad drive. If you can get the filesystem structure
> to no longer "point" at the bad drive, you would only loose the data on
> the bad drive.
yep. thats the rub. getting it to "think" it was truncated....
>
> I don't know how to do that though so maybe this whole comment is a time
> waster for you. ;^)
>
> When buying torx driver bits, spend the extra for one with good quality
> steel. I have purchased cheap ones only to have them twist and break in
> the screw.
that is a given. I know about the cheap tools (caused no end of problems when
being used).
harbor freight tools is a pretty good source for good tools at *lower*
prices. :)
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