On Sat, 13 Oct 2012 11:45:10 -0700 Keith Keller <kkeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2012-10-13, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Re-creating a raid5/6 with --assume-clean is for me a disaster recovery, > > something that should be performed when everything else fails. It's > > extremely unfortunate that a lot of guides bring this in very early in the > > fault finding process. > > Actually the RAID wiki suggests exactly this path, and suggests against > --force, contrary to the advice I've gotten here from Neil and others. > > https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RAID_Recovery#Restore_array_by_recreating_.28after_multiple_device_failure.29 > > I could update this, but not being expert all it'd say is "use > --assemble --force; if it fails ask on the mailing list." :) Perhaps > that's actually the best advice to give, but if there's something more > useful to put on that page maybe someone with more expertise could > update it? > > --keith > You should definitely try '--assemble --force' before trying to recreate the array. There is no question about that. NeilBrown
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