From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Scobie Subject: Re: No resync Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:58:10 +1300 Message-ID: <4B4C0162.5040807@sauce.co.nz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Leslie Rhorer wrote: >> Is there a way to force assemble a stopped array that has too many >> failed devices, while disabling the resync that would normally occur? > > Well, of course if the array has too few members to start (even > after the --force), then it won't start and thus won't recync, but assuming > one has enough targets to assemble and run the array, I believe > --asume-clean will do what you want. It's in the man page. > By using force as part of an assemble, all failed devices set to healty again and a resync is immediately started. According to the man page --asume-clean is not an available option for assemble. I have tried --read-only but that is not an otion either. I need to reassemble without resyncing so I can fsck first. Regards, Richard