Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > Ok, next thing to recommend would be to get the latest mdadm from Niels > git repo and try with that one. I know some who have fixed similar > problems to yours by doing this. > > "git clone git://neil.brown.name/mdadm mdadm" and compile that and see > if --assemble --force works. > That constitutes a huge step forward. Was able to assemble the array with all 12 drives using this binary! Thanks so much!!! However, after stopping and re-assembling the array, using the 'stock' CentOS version, it yields this complaint unless '--force' is also used. I'm inclined to believe I should simply fail /dev/sdbt and move on, yes? [root@dsfs01 ~/mdadm]./mdadm -A /dev/md10 mdadm: ignoring /dev/sdbk as it reports /dev/sdbt as failed mdadm: ignoring /dev/sdbl as it reports /dev/sdbt as failed mdadm: ignoring /dev/sdbm as it reports /dev/sdbt as failed mdadm: /dev/md10 assembled from 9 drives - not enough to start the array. [root@dsfs01 ~/mdadm]mdadm [root@dsfs01 ~/mdadm]./mdadm -A --force /dev/md10 mdadm: /dev/md10 has been started with 12 drives. [root@dsfs01 ~/mdadm]mdadm -S /dev/md10 mdadm: stopped /dev/md10 [root@dsfs01 ~/mdadm]mdadm -A /dev/md10 mdadm: ignoring /dev/sdbk as it reports /dev/sdbt as failed mdadm: ignoring /dev/sdbl as it reports /dev/sdbt as failed mdadm: ignoring /dev/sdbm as it reports /dev/sdbt as failed mdadm: /dev/md10 assembled from 9 drives - not enough to start the array. [root@dsfs01 ~/mdadm]mdadm -A --force /dev/md10 mdadm: /dev/md10 has been started with 12 drives. -- 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
