On 11/20/2013 02:46 PM, kustep wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > is there an option to specifiy the "Unused Space : before=...." > Superblock information in mdadm -C ....? I don't know about this, but ... > My Raid crashed due to a controller error, but I was able to make the > new superblock almost identical to the old one (using mdadm -C > --assume-clean --level=6 --raid-devices=11 --chunk=256K --metadata=1.2 > --bitmap=None --size=195328588 --data-offset=128768 /dev/md0 > /dev/mapper/disk[cdefmbjkh] missing). Looking at mdadm --examine the This almost certainly didn't do what you think--square brackets in the shell don't maintain the order of the letters given. The device order actually given to mdadm would have been [bcdefhjkm]. The bracket notation will also leave out devices that don't actually exist. You need to use curly braces with commas to maintain a specific order. FWIW, 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