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From: "NeilBrown" <neilb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Need urgent help in fixing raid5 array
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 15:00:43 +1100 (EST)
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On Tue, January 6, 2009 1:46 pm, Mike Myers wrote:
> BTW, don't I need to use the --assume-clean option in the create operation
> to have this work right?

No.  When you create a degraded raid5, it is always assumed to be clean,
because it doesn't make any sense for it to be dirty.
However it wouldn't hurt to use --assume-clean, but it won't make any
difference.

NeilBrown