On Tue Jan 12, 2010 at 05:58:10PM +1300, Richard Scobie wrote:

Leslie Rhorer wrote:

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Is there a way to  force assemble a stopped array that has too many
failed devices, while disabling the resync that would normally occur?

	Well, of course if the array has too few members to start (even
after the --force), then it won't start and thus won't recync, but assuming
one has enough targets to assemble and run the array, I believe
--asume-clean will do what you want.  It's in the man page.

By using force as part of an assemble, all failed devices set to healty 
again and a resync is immediately started.

According to the man page --asume-clean is not an available option for 
assemble.

I have tried --read-only but that is not an otion either.

I need to reassemble without resyncing so I can fsck first.

You probably need to start it with missing members then, so it's able to
run but not to resync.

Cheers,
    Robin
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