From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Davies Subject: Re: raid5 recovery dramas. Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:03:22 +0800 Message-ID: <4868853A.4050202@curly.ii.net> References: <48608E9B.6080904@curly.ii.net> <18532.49368.984453.933541@notabene.brown> <4864CBAB.90201@curly.ii.net> <18533.20771.286899.160882@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <18533.20771.286899.160882@notabene.brown> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Cc: Neil Brown List-Id: linux-raid.ids Neil Brown wrote: > I would create some loop back devices over files and try to make a > similar situation and assemble the array and assure my self that > reshape doesn't start automatically (it shouldn't while the array is > readonly) before actually doing anything to the real devices. Hmm, I understand what you're asking and what it means, however actually /doing/ it is beyond my skills at the moment. I haven't had a chance to bring down the box and try booting from a liveCD, but based on the above, I don't think that's likely to work. Thanks for your help, but I'm feeling a little discouraged at this point. Cheers, Mark.