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From: "David F." <df7729@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: MDADM 3.3 broken?
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 13:59:34 -0800
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does it need to be a tar type file or would virtual hard drive .vmdk
files be okay?

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Martin Wilck <mwilck@arcor.de> wrote:
> The metadata really looks all ok, but mdadm fails to assemble it
> correctly. It does look like a bug to me. The problem seems to be
> related to the global spare somehow. I have no idea why.
>
> The best thing to proceed would be to run mdadm --dump on
> /dev/sd[bcdef], put the output in a tgz and make it available to us
> somewhere. So we could actually debut the assembly.
>
> Regards,
> Martin
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