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From: John Rowe <rowe@excc.ex.ac.uk>
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Subject: [linux-lvm] RAID 5 recovery?
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Due to an extended power outage over the new year, I have a RAID5 array
with two dirty devices so it won't come up. The HOWTO suggests running:

 mdadm --assemble --force

Is this good advice? I'm running RedHat 9 so I don't have mdadm but of
course I'm happy to install it.

Thanks

John