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From: Paul Waldo <pwaldo@waldoware.com>
Subject: Re: In Trouble--Please Help! (was Re: Can't add disk to failed raid
 array)
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:35:44 -0400
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Dan Williams wrote:
> On 7/23/06, Paul Waldo <pwaldo@waldoware.com> wrote:
>> Here is the dmesg output.  No log files are created with the FC5 
>> rescue disk.
>> Thanks!
> I ran into this as well, I believe at this point you want to set:
> 
> md-mod.start_dirty_degraded=1
> 
> as part of your boot options.  Understand you may see some filesystem
> corruption as noted in the documentation.
> 
> See:
> http://www.linux-m32r.org/lxr/http/source/Documentation/md.txt?v=2.6.17#L54
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dan

I'll certainly give that a try later on, as I need physical access to 
the box.

The corruption part is worrisome...  When you did this, did you 
experience corruption?  I'm running RAID6 with 7 disks; presumably even 
with two disks out of whack, I should be in good shape...???

Paul