Re: assistance recovering failed raid6 array
From: Martin Bosner <hidden>
Date: 2017-02-20 19:31:45
On 20 Feb 2017, at 20:16, Phil Turmel [off-list ref] wrote: If you can get to 35 of 36 original disks, even with scattered errors, you could complete a check scrub to make 35 good disks. With timeout mismatch, you'll have to override the kernel timeouts for all devices, so such a scrub would take a very long time, but would recover everything.
Is there a way tell mdadm to use sdk1 as a “active” device? And how can i tell the array that it should not try to recover sdm1 but set it active ? Is there any magic to force the state ? It might not be healthy for the normal use case but might be helpful for me. Martin