On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 11:57:58AM -0500, Phil Turmel wrote: > I have a suspicion that 'mdadm --create --assume-clean' or some > variant was one of those. And that the rescue environment has a > version of mdadm >= 3.1.2. The default metadata alignment changed in > that version. Confirmed. > The lowest device node is the last device role? Any chance these are also out of order? Yes, the data was confirmed to be shuffled later. > If my suspicions are right, you'll have to use an old version of mdadm > to redo an 'mdadm --create --assume-clean'. Passed -e 0 with that, and corrected the order of the devices, and then it looked much better. Some minor data corruption where the new metadata overwrote stuff, but much easier to recover those files than the entire 35 TiB. Thanks everybody for the help. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead E-Mail : robbat2@xxxxxxxxxx GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85 -- 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