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From: "David M. Strang" <dstrang@shellpower.net>
Subject: Re: MD or MDADM bug?
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 17:22:16 -0400
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Neil Brown wrote:
> On Friday September 2, dstrang@shellpower.net wrote:
> >
> > Does this mean I'm going to loose all my data?
> >
>
> No.
> At least, you shouldn't, and doing the --create won't make anything
> worse.
>
> So do the --create with the 'missing', and don't add any spares.
> Do a 'fsck' or whatever to check that everything is OK.
>
> If it isn't, we'll have to look again at exactly what happened and
> figure out which disks we should have created into the array.

-(root@abyss)-(~)- # mdadm -C /dev/md0 -l5 -n28 -c 128 --name=md/md0 -p la 
/dev/sd[a-l] missing /dev/sd[n-z] /dev/sda[ab]
mdadm: invalid number of raid devices: 28

I'm using mdadm 2.0 now --- should I try 2.0-devel-3 ?

-- David