2006/7/1, Ákos Maróy <darkeye@xxxxxxxxx>:
Neil Brown wrote: > Try adding '--force' to the -A line. > That tells mdadm to try really hard to assemble the array. thanks, this seems to have solved the issue... Akos
Well, Neil, I'm wondering, It seemed to me that Akos' description of the problem was that re-adding the drive (with mdadm not complaining about anything) would trigger a resync that would not even start. But as your '--force' does the trick, it implies that the resync was not really triggered after all without it... Or did I miss a bit of log Akos provided that did say so ? Could there be a place here for an error message ? More generally, could it be usefull to build up a recovery howto, based on the experiences on this list (I guess 90% of the posts a related to recoveries) ? Not in terms of a standard disk loss, but in terms of a power failure or a major disk problem. You know, re-creating the array, rolling the dices, and *tada !* your data is back again... I could not find a bit of doc about this. Regards, - 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
