Re: recovering from raid5 corruption

[Shaya Potter <spotter@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/29/2012 07:29 PM, Shaya Potter wrote:
> however, now I need to figure out how to recreate the lvm appropriately.
> I see the configuration "file" in at the start of the raid array (less
> -f /dev/md0 which I'm including below)
>
> I asusme there should be a way to reuse this data to recreate the lvm?
>
> any continued advice would be appreciated, googling doesn't seem to come
> up with much if one doesn't have a backup of the lvm data.

<configuration snipped>

found an old linux journal article that seems to say what I should do, 
but not working.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8874?page=0,2

root@nas:~# vgcfgrestore -f 1.cfg raid5
  Incorrect metadata area header checksum
  Incorrect metadata area header checksum
  Restore failed.
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