> In theory if you stop the current resync, try to recreate it in all > possible permutations of 5 drives using --assume-clean during creation > so to prevent any resyncs (and just mount readonly!) then try mounting > it or try fsck -n to see if data makes sense, you might be able to get > data out of it. I have never tried this technique, I read it from a post > by Neil Brown in this ML, date 12/04/2009 10:12 PM, subject "Re: RAID5 > demise or coma? after re-creating with a spare" try looking for it in > the archives Wow. I tried several times to assemble the array but I was not aware that it has to be in the same order. That explains a lot. Time for a hardware RAID controller. :) Thank you for the information. --- Will Y. -- 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
