I've got a raid5 array with 5 disks where 2 failed. The failures are occasional and only on a few sectors so I tried to assemble it with 4 disks anyway: # mdadm -A -f -R /dev/md<number> /dev/disk1 /dev/disk2 /dev/disk3 /dev/disk4 However mdadm complains that one of the disks has an out-of-date superblock and kicks it out, and then it cannot run the array with only 3 disks. Shouldn't it adjust the superblock and assemble-run it anyway? That's what -f is for, no? This is with kernel 2.6.22.16 and mdadm 2.6.4. - 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
