Neil, > mdadm -A /dev/md2 --force /dev/sd[ade]2 Many thanks for your feedback. I will try this when I get home. So if I boil this down to the principles, your advice is to assemble the array in degraded mode using the components that have the most recent update timestamps. Degraded, because this prevents resynchronisation. Thanks, Jan -- 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
