From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Raid 1, can't get the second disk added back in.
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 09:28:58 +1100
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In-Reply-To: message from Nagilum on Saturday January 5
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On Saturday January 5, nagilum@nagilum.org wrote:
> 
> Since /dev/hdb5 has been part of this array before you should use  
> --re-add instead of --add.
> Kind regards,
> Alex.

That is not correct.

--re-add is only needed for arrays without metadata, for which you use
"--build" to start them.

NeilBrown