[linux-lvm] RAID 5 recovery?

[Michael Loftis]

--On January 2, 2006 6:28:23 PM +0000 John Rowe <rowe at excc.ex.ac.uk> wrote:

> Due to an extended power outage over the new year, I have a RAID5 array
> with two dirty devices so it won't come up. The HOWTO suggests running:
>
>  mdadm --assemble --force
>
> Is this good advice? I'm running RedHat 9 so I don't have mdadm but of
> course I'm happy to install it.


I suggest you talk to/find the MD people.  LVM != RAID/MD.  However, yes, 
this is the only thing that might help you AFAIK.