From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Smith Subject: Re: Trying to start dirty, degraded RAID6 array Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:22:08 +1000 Message-ID: <44500EB0.6030006@nighthawkrad.net> References: <44500439.1020108@nighthawkrad.net> <17488.2813.780066.749611@cse.unsw.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <17488.2813.780066.749611@cse.unsw.edu.au> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Neil Brown wrote: > The '-f' is meant to make this work. However it seems there is a bug. > > Could you please test this patch? It isn't exactly the right fix, but > it definitely won't hurt. Thanks, Neil, I'll give this a go when I get home tonight. Is there any way to start an array without kicking off a rebuild ? CS