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I'm not throwing out FUD

No - I think Mark was heading it off before it became fear etc ie FUD.


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I see posts about using the force flag and various "pucker" factors in this thread and hence some of my fears. I figure plugging the array into the new box would require forcing it online.

That's the problem with being fully honest - I did try to emphasise that the --force stuff was to do recovery in situations where you were already royally FUBARed.

Let me put it this way, if and only if your system burns to the ground and is eaten by ants then linux raid *may* need to use the --force command Better?

Moving to another machine - business as usual.
Disk failure - business as usual.
Switch from RedHat to SUSE to Debian - business as usual.
Upgrade kernel - business as usual.
etc etc

One of my biggest problems with linux RAID way back when was when a disk failed and I didn't notice for months - the thing just kept going.
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