Recovering Gvinum RAID5 after a crash

[Lukas Ertl]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 freebsd at newmillennium.net.au wrote:

> I tried issuing a 'start' request, and it appeared to start initializing
> the disks!! So, I killed the machine and left the array unmounted. I've
> got duplicate data of most of the stuff on there, so its not a big deal,
> but there should be a way to get the array back up without initializing
> the disks.

If two disks went down, you can't recover.  Of course, if you know that 
the data is OK, then 'setstate' would help here.  I'll have a look.

cheers,
le

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