On 03/03/2016 06:07 AM, Another Sillyname wrote: > Plenty of hits....but no clear fixes and as I said I'm not willing to > 'try' things from google hits until someone with better insight can > give me a view. > > Trying things is fine in many instances, but not with a 20+TB data set > as I'm sure you can understand. > I have not tried this personally, but it may be of interest: https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Recovering_a_failed_software_RAID#Making_the_harddisks_read-only_using_an_overlay_file I found this explanation of the dmsetup commands to be more easy to follow: http://www.flaterco.com/kb/sandbox.html -- 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