Hello Neil, I am experiencing the problem with one RAID6 array. - I was running degraded array with 3 of 5 drives. When adding fourth HDD one of the drives reported read errors, later disconnected and then it was kicked out from array. (It was maybe doing of controller and not drive, not important.) - The array has internal intent bitmap. After the drive reconnected I've tried it to --re-add to array with 2 of 5 drives. I am not sure if that should work? But it did not, recovery got interrupted just after start and drive was marked as spare. - Right now I want to assemble array to get data out of it. Is it possible to change "device role" field in device's superblock so it can be assembled? I I have --examine and --detail output from before the problem and so I know at which position the kicked drive belongs. - Changing device role field seems much safer way than recreating array with --assume-clean, because with recreating too much things can go wrong... Thanks. Patrik -- 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
