raid 0 problems

[Technomage]

On Sunday 26 March 2006 20:18, Nathan England 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?
yes

> 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?

fs = XFS

problem is: the drive is not mountable (given previously stated errors) even 
in a live or rescue configuration.

now, I am running a test of this given that a friend of mine has this 
identical problem, only he has FORENSIC DATA stored on there and he 
ABSOLUTELY NEEDS TO RECOVER IT and thus, he is unwilling to try these tests 
on his disks due to lack of hardware backups (more disks).

this means, I need some way of recovering the data from the first of 2 discs 
given that the second one in the raid 0 configuration is either failed 
(hardware) or otherwise not usable.


>
> 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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