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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: MD devnode still present after 'remove' udev event, and mdadm
 reports 'does not appear to be active'
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:45:31 +1100
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On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:11:47 +0200 Alexander Lyakas <alex.bolshoy@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello Neil,
> can you please confirm for me something?
> In case the array is FAILED (when your enough() function returns 0) -
> for example, after simultaneous failure of all drives - then the only
> option to try to recover such array is to do:
> mdadm --stop
> and then attempt
> mdadm --assemble
>=20
> correct?

Yes, though you will probably want a --force as well.

>=20
> I did not see any other option to recover such array Incremental
> assemble doesn't work in that case, it simply adds back the drives as
> spares.

In recent version of mdadm it shouldn't add them as spare.  It should say
that it cannot add it and give up.

NeilBrown



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