What was the default chunk size in previous versions of mdadm? Is there a way to set data/super offset? Trying to recreate a raid 5 md with all spares

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Hi,
I have a 6 device raid 5 array which had 1 disk go bad and then due to a power outage, the machine shutdown and when it started all the disks were showing up as spares with the following mdadm -E output (sample for one given below and full for all devices attached).

This md device was part a Physical Volume for a LVM Volume Group. 

I am trying to recreate the array using mdadm --create --assume-clean using 1 device as missing. I am checking if the device is getting created correctly by checking the UUID of the created device which would match if the device gets created correctly.

I have tried a few combinations of the disk order that I believe is right however I think I'm getting tripped up by the fact that the mdadm I used to create this md device was some 2.x series and now we are on 3.x (and I may have taken some of the defaults originally which I don't' remember)
What all 'defaults' have changed over the versions so I can try those? Like chunk size? Can we manually configure the super/data offset? Are those significant when we do an mdadm --create --assume-clean?

Thanks,
Anshu

/dev/sda5:
         Magic : a92b4efc
       Version : 1.2
   Feature Map : 0x0
    Array UUID : b480fe0c:c9e29256:0fcf1b0c:1f8c762c
          Name : GATEWAY:RAID5_500G
 Creation Time : Wed Apr 28 16:10:43 2010
    Raid Level : -unknown-
  Raid Devices : 0

Avail Dev Size : 976768002 (465.76 GiB 500.11 GB)
 Used Dev Size : 976765954 (465.76 GiB 500.10 GB)
   Data Offset : 2048 sectors
  Super Offset : 8 sectors
         State : active
   Device UUID : a8499a91:628ddde8:1cc8f4b9:749136f9

   Update Time : Sat May 19 23:04:23 2012
      Checksum : 9950883c - correct
        Events : 1


  Device Role : spare
  Array State :  ('A' == active, '.' == missing)

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