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From: Richard Scobie <richard@sauce.co.nz>
Subject: Re: two questions re. proactive recovery and forced assembly
Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 13:13:37 +1200
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rosenfield.albert@gmail.com wrote:

> 
> (How about forcibly assembling an array where one too many disks has
> been kicked?  Is that still, uhm, contorted to say the least? Or is
> there a proper feature for that too?)

Depends what you mean by contorted. Have a look at the "For assemble" 
section of the mdadm man page.

mdadm -A --force /dev/mdX /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1

does not seem contorted to me.

Regards,

Richard