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From: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Subject: Re: mkraid-problems
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 07:01:58 +1000
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In-Reply-To: message from Ekkehard Lissner on Friday August 15
To: Ekkehard Lissner <ekkehard@lissners.de>
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On Friday August 15, ekkehard@lissners.de wrote:
> 
> If there is no normal way to reconstruct the array without losing my 
> data, how about patching the timestamps with
> a disk-editor? Which bytes must be read from sdc1 and be written to sdd1 
> and sdb1?
> 

Your array sounds very sick, though it is not at all clear what the
problem really is.

I suggest you get mdadm, and use
  mdadm --assemble --force /dev/md0 /dev/sd[bcd]1

It will try to assemble the array for force-update event counts as
necessary.

What kernel version are you running?

NeilBrown