On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 06:31:02AM +1100, NeilBrown wrote: > 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. Thanks to everybody, The "-A --force" worked fine, the array had, in the end, 0 mismatch count. Thanks again, bye, pg > > NeilBrown -- piergiorgio -- 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
