> It is a 7 drive array. If you use 6 of 7 drives, md will not try to > re-sync. But I have no idea if how to re-use the previous RAID data. > If you mean the previous configuration, I have it on a writing pad and will gladly type it into a raidtab or mdadm incantation. mdadm doesn't look like it will do it yet because --assemble only works for devices with Linux RAID superblocks, --build won't do RAID 5, and --create, according to the manual page, says "--readonly" is not supported, and will create superblocks. Otherwise I would do the command below: mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=5 --raid-devices=7 \ /dev/sdg /dev/sdf /dev/sde /dev/sdd /dev/sdc /dev/sdb missing Instead, if I were to insert this raidtab, would it do the right thing? raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 5 persistent-superblock 0 nr-raid-disks 7 parity-algorithm left-symmetric device /dev/sda failed-disk 6 device /dev/sdb raid-disk 5 device /dev/sdc raid-disk 4 device /dev/sdd raid-disk 3 device /dev/sde raid-disk 2 device /dev/sdf raid-disk 1 device /dev/sdg raid-disk 0 > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
