As it turned out, it was a software (Linux) RAID using XFS. It was a
customized Linux distro used on a SoC Power PC platform.
Eric
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Eric Shubert <
ejs@shubes.net> wrote:
> Eric Cope wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > My friend was running off of a Buffalo NAS, which died. Does anyone know
> > how to recover his files from a RAID 5 configuration?
> > Thanks,
> > Eric
> >
>
> I'm glad you got this fixed up, Eric.
>
> This is why I don't use hardware raid, and I don't use raid 5.
>
> Some time ago I managed to recover a 3-drive raid-5 array with 2
> degraded drives. Not fun. That was software raid, fortunately.
>
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