On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:49 AM, chris [off-list ref] wrote:

any idea why it wont assemble? I thought even if data was corrupt I
should be able to force it to assemble and look at it to determine if
it is corrupt or in tact

A bug in mdadm was introduced shortly after the "missing" support was
added.  Looks like you need 3.2.6.

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Dan