Re: two questions re. proactive recovery and forced assembly

Richard Scobie wrote:

 There is a md RAID feature called "repair", which can be regularly
scheduled via a cron job and will do a full check and repair of the entire
array.

 This can be initiated with the command:

 echo repair > /sys/block/mdX/md/sync_action

 where mdX is your array.

 More information on md RAID options can be found in the file md.txt, in the
Documentation directory of the kernel source.

Beautiful, just what I was looking for.

Thanks!

(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?)