On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Adam Goryachev wrote: > > Within the last month or thereabouts, I saw a patch go past the list > which indicated that this might happen. Perhaps you need either a newer, > or older version of md (linux kernel) or mdadm. > > The issue was failing to start an array which had enough members to > start while a member was marked failed or something like that.... Thanks. I will try a Live distro with a newer mdadm + kernel. > You didn't mention the kernel version (or I've missed it) but that is my > suggestion, certainly before you try anything destructive.... It was mentioned right at the beginning of my OP - Stock Debian Squeeze 2.6.32-5 > > Or someone else may have a more sensible solution for you (hopefully). I hope so. I can start afresh from the backups of the critical files but I stand to loose at least a day's worth of work :( Thanks, -- Arun Khan -- 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
