Josh Saddler

Confirmed. The RAID array is dead, toasted. The hardware itself is okay, but I ran reiserfsck --rebuild-tree after fixing the superblock on /dev/md2 (/). Should have just stuck with fixing the superblock and rebooted.

For whatever reason, reiserfsck decided that almost every last bit of data on the disk should be moved to /lost+found. And now I have an unusable workstation. The only working dir is /bin. Even commands like less don't work. I can cd, ls, and su. That's about it.

Time to reboot with a liveCD and hope that somewhere in the ~40GB of data I really want I can find my /home and start pulling stuff out of it. Reinstalling wouldn't be so bad; after all, I only installed Gentoo on this thing a couple of months ago. Setting everything back up would be annoying and time-consuming, but not fatal. What really pisses me off is that I had backed up everything from the laptop to the workstation before wiping two years' worth of data from the laptop.

At least md1 (/boot) is working. This really drives home the point that RAID1 is not a backup; it's just redundancy. Now I have redundant failures. Next time, I'll put /home on its own partition.

Stupid reiserfsck. Stupid me for running it.