From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nevyn Subject: Desperate plea for help Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 15:14:37 +1200 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids I've recently had a raid 5 array fail on me - 2 drives suddenly just up and showed a failure. Of course this means that the metadata is stuffed. I've had a look at the howto and found the mdadm --assemble --force command but it's not working in this case. The 2 drives show up as spares. A friend has suggested that perhaps I could try reconstructing the array but suggested that I should ask the question on here first. Is there some way I can reconstruct the array at least long enough to back the data up?