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From: Asdo <asdo@shiftmail.org>
Subject: Re: Several steps to death
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:36:23 +0100
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aragonx@dcsnow.com wrote:
> Wow.
>
> I tried several times to assemble the array but I was not aware that it
> has to be in the same order.  That explains a lot.  Time for a hardware
> RAID controller.  :)  Thank you for the information.
>   

"--assemble" does not need drives to be specified in the correct order, 
but "--create" on an existing array will be destructive on existing data 
unless drives are specified in the same order as before.