I've recently had a raid 5 array fail on me - 2 drives suddenly just up and showed a failure. Of course this means that the metadata is stuffed. I've had a look at the howto and found the mdadm --assemble --force command but it's not working in this case. The 2 drives show up as spares. A friend has suggested that perhaps I could try reconstructing the array but suggested that I should ask the question on here first. Is there some way I can reconstruct the array at least long enough to back the data up? - 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
