Hi all,

 

Just did some maintenance work mainly consisting of deleting several dupes in /mnt/disk2. I also deleted /var/log/syslog because I wanted to be able to extract fresh, reliable notifications of remaining dupes.

After a reboot, the system considers ALL harddisks as new.

 

My plan is to use the start button, so that the parity can be recalculated. I have no reason to assume that the disks have faulty contents.

 

Am I correct here?

 

Cheers,

 

Mark

 

Hi all,

 

Just did some maintenance work mainly consisting of deleting several dupes in /mnt/disk2. I also deleted /var/log/syslog because I wanted to be able to extract fresh, reliable notifications of remaining dupes.

After a reboot, the system considers ALL harddisks as new.

 

My plan is to use the start button, so that the parity can be recalculated. I have no reason to assume that the disks have faulty contents.

 

Am I correct here?

 

Cheers,

 

Mark

 

for it to think all the drives are new, there must be something preventing it from reading the config/super.dat file. (or the file is corrupted)

 

Yes, try the "Start" button.  As you said, parity will need to be re-calculated.  Don't press the button labeled "restore" unless all of your data drives are assigned, working, and showing as expected.  Pressing it when a drive has failed would erase from parity any knowledge of its old contents as parity would be calculated without the failed drive.

 

Earlier, when you rebooted, a new /var/log/syslog was created.  You should post a copy of it, just in case something else unusual is going on that would prevent your super.dat file from being written properly when the parity sync is completed.

 

Joe L.

Here is the syslog.

The super.dat was corrupt, bad checksum, so it was thrown out.

 

By the way, you don't have to delete the syslog, as it is always fresh after a reboot.

By the way, you don't have to delete the syslog, as it is always fresh after a reboot.

 

  Thought that might be the case, just wanted to make sure!

 

Thanks for the help. I have a running system again.