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From: Sharif Islam <mislam@uiuc.edu>
Subject: Re: recreate superblock? (was Re: mdadm: failed to RUN_ARRAY)
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 14:09:46 -0500
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Mike Tran wrote:

>Hi Sharif,
>
>>>From the kernel log, I believe that the raid5 array now has 4 working
>disks out of 6 raid disks.  My suggestion is to recreate the array.
>
>Before recreating the MD array, I would suggest that you run mdadm
>--examine /dev/hdxx (i.e. hde1, hdf1 or hdg1) and write down the
>information of the original array setup. 
>
>Some of the important Raid5 info are : Raid Devices, Total Devices,
>Preferred Minor (/dev/mdx), Spare Devices, Layout, Chunk Size, order of
>devices. 
>
>When you **decide** to use mdadm -C to recreate array, mdadm will ask
>you to confirm on overwriting existing md superblock.
>  
>
Thanks for your response. Will it delete the existing the data on the RAID?

-Sharif