Marc MERLIN wrote:
In the olden days (pre-mdadm), I could bring up the array by giving 5 drives
and marking /dev/sde1 as failed-disk instead of read-disk (or somesuch).
I could not find a way to do this with mdadm in the man page. How do I give
/dev/sde1 on the command line as a failed drive?
Looking at the mdadm man page in the "CREATE MODE" section:
"To create a "degraded" array in which some devices are missing, simply
give the word "missing" in place of a device name. This will cause
mdadm to leave the corresponding slot in the array empty. For a RAID4
or RAID5 array at most one slot can be "missing"; for a RAID6 array at
most two slots. For a RAID1 array, only one real device needs to be
given. All of the others can be "missing"."
Regards,
Richard
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