Re: How to salvage a degraded mdadm RAID1 with as little data loss as possible?

On Mon, Jun 22, 2026 at 08:18:45AM +0200, Michel Verdier wrote:
> On 2026-06-22, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> >> Your commands are strange : the partitions should be the disk partitions
> >> from /dev and not mapped ones. Or you have another layer ? From where
> >> come /dev/mapper/partition_1 and /dev/mapper/partition_2 ?
> >
> > If I have been following along, the RAID parts are LUKS encrypted devices,
> > so to me it does make sense.
> 
> RAID is always before LUKS : partition > RAID array > LUKS > filesystem

"Is always" means for you "should always be" or "has to be"?

As far as I understand OP, their case is the other way around (and I don't
see why it shouldn't be technically possible: a block device is a block
device is a block device, after all).

Cheers
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t

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