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From: Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
Subject: Re: MD uses wrong disks to assemble an array?
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 10:40:59 +0200
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On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 07:22:17AM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
>Yes, START_ARRAY (used by raidtools) is deprecated,
>but I understand also that mdadm in such a situation
>will refuse to bring the array up, because the
>GUUIDs will be different.
it depends on what you tell mdadm to do.
i created mdassemble for this very purpose, it scans a configuration
file where you should put the uids for your root md component,
in this case mdassemble will bring your root array up, even if degraded.

regards,
L.

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