I don't get it. I cannot seem to get mdadm to handle a degraded array no matter what I do. I'm setting up a system with all filesystems including boot and root on software RAID. I initially tried to use raidstart in my initrd but ran into a bug that prevents reinstating missing array members in some circumstances, so I was directed to use mdadm instead. Here's my current setup: root is on /dev/md2 (RAID5) The /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf file in the initrd contains: DEVICE /dev/sd* ARRAY /dev/md2 devices="/dev/sda3,/dev/sdb3,/dev/sdc3" The modules loaded are modprobe -k aic7xxx modprobe -k raid1 modprobe -k raid5 modprobe -k ext3 modprobe -k ext2 mdadm is run as set "/dev/md2" [ -b "$1" ] || set "/dev/md/2" mdadm --assemble --run --scan "$1" I've tried every combination I can think of and if there is any member missing (say sdc3) then it complains that that member has a bad superblock. Please tell me what I'm doing wrong here. If you need more information, let me know. Ken Causey - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
