On 22/03/20 00:32, Phil Turmel wrote: > However, there have been bugs in --force that would cause it to not > assemble. Also, I believe latest behavior for --re-add would not have > damaged the metadata. And note that the website does tell you always to use the latest version of mdadm when trying to recover an array ... because it's linux-only it's pretty easy to build from source if you have to. Cheers, Wol