Re: two questions re. proactive recovery and forced assembly

rosenfield.albert@gmail.com wrote:

(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?)

Depends what you mean by contorted. Have a look at the "For assemble" 
section of the mdadm man page.

mdadm -A --force /dev/mdX /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1

does not seem contorted to me.

Regards,

Richard