Jonathan wrote:
> I was already terrified of screwing things up
> now I'm afraid of making things worse

Adrenalin... makes life worth living there for a sec, doesn't it ;o)

> based on what was posted before is this a sensible thing to try?
> mdadm -C /dev/md0 -c 32 -n 4 -l 5 missing /dev/etherd/e0.[023]

Yes, looks exactly right.

> Is what I've done to the superblock size recoverable?

I don't think you've done anything at all.
I just *don't know* if you have, that's all.

Was just trying to say that it wasn't super-cautious of you to begin
with, that's all :-).

> I don't understand how mdadm --assemble would know what to do,
> which is why I didn't try it initially.

By giving it --force, you tell it to forcefully mount the array even
though it might be damaged.
That means including some disks (the freshest ones) that are out of sync.

That help?
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