Topic: Cannot Mount my Bigdisk RAID0

[equalizer]

I have a sme server setup mainly as a file server for a mixed environment of pc's mac osx and mac os9.
It has 1 HD 500 Mb as a /root boot disk and
4 x 2Tb setup as software raid 0, that is mounted as an ext3 filesystem
It worked for almost a year 24x7 while a few days ago suddenly misbehave with very slow connection times.
We reboot the server and everything went back to normal and 2 days later stop working
Now after a quick check i realize it cannot mount the raid0 fs with the following error
Failed to mount /mnt/bigdik8t/e-smith/files :

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/md0,
       or too many mounted file systems

Any ideas....at least how can i save data in raid md0 because its valuable and unfortunately no recent backup (stupid i know)

Thanks

[Stefano]

RAID0? brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...

[CharlieBrady]

Any ideas....at least how can i save data in raid md0 because its valuable ...

RAID0 and valuable data is a very poor combination.

I hope that you don't have any hardware problem with either disk. Your problem is much worse if you have failing hardware.

Standard advice is for you to copy the data without any change as soon as possible, and then try to repair the filesystem on the copied data. Your only other option is to just try to repair the filesystem without first copying it.

Google is your best reference for approaches to repairing the filesystem (e.g. using e2fsck). That's not an SME server specific issue.