raid 0 problems

[Dan Lund]

First question to ask is, is this hardware raid or linux software raid?
--Dan

On 3/26/06, Nathan England <nathan at paysonlinux.org> wrote:
>
> The problem with raid 0, while giving expanded filesystems over many disks is
> there is no fault tolerance, so it is possible that when one of those drives
> took a dump, you lost ALL of that data. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure
> that is how it works.
> Does the drive power up at all? Or is it completely dead?
> What is the file system on it? Can you boot with a knoppix disc and try to let
> it e2fsck or reiserfsck that filesystem and see if it fixes it?
>
> On Sunday 26 March 2006 20:13, Technomage wrote:
> > I need the help of a raid "expert"
> >
> > I have a raid 0 problem. seems that when a machine went belly up on me, it
> > damages part of a raid 0 virtual fs in such a way that I can no longer
> > mount the 2nd 9and smaller) half of the filesystem.
> >
> > the kernel panics on boot and I get all kinds of "bad magic" errors when
> > attempting to do so.
> >
> > I have more than enough HD space to copy the images, but I need to get the
> > data off this "raid 0 fs" as soon as possible.
> >
> > can anyone help?
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