raid 0 problems

[Technomage]

On Sunday 26 March 2006 20:36, Dan Lund wrote:

not hardware. this was a raid-0 software installation.


> 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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