From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: raid5 stuck in degraded, inactive and dirty mode
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 17:52:57 +1100
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On Wednesday January 9, cat@zip.com.au wrote:
> 
> I'd provide data dumps of --examine and friends but I'm in a situation
> where transferring the data would be a right pain. I'll do it if need
> be, though.
> 
> So, what can I do? 

Well, providing the output of "--examine" would help a lot.

But I suspect that "--assemble --force" would do the right thing.
Without more details, it is hard to say for sure.

NeilBrown