On 09/18/2011 12:07 PM, Mike Hartman wrote: > Thanks Phil. --assemble --force is all it took - glad I held off. That > was my first instinct to try, but I was worried it would still leave > the drives as spare AND somehow mess up the metadata enough that it > wouldn't be recoverable, so I was afraid to touch it until someone > could confirm the approach. Seems like a silly reason to have the > array down for multiple days, but better safe than sorry with that > much data. Good to hear! This list's archives have a number of cases where premature use of "--create" pushed a recoverable array over the edge, with resulting grief for the owner. Not that it can't or shouldn't ever be done, but the pitfalls have sharp stakes. > Thanks again to both you and Jim! You're welcome. Phil -- 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
