Right, now if md would do auto detecting on mds then my problem would have disappeared, but alas.... Anycase, I'm trying to make use of mdadm (I've tried different options etc. inside mdadm.conf from what I could see on the mailing list), but I'm still stuck with the following issue: (right after boot): root@hvstress ~ # mdadm --assemble --scan mdadm: no devices found for /dev/md/1 root@hvstress ~ # mdadm --examine --scan ARRAY /dev/md1 level=linear num-devices=2 UUID=8eb3a6c0:02e58fd9:a662938a:56f87147 devices=/dev/md/0,/dev/md/0 root@hvstress ~ # mdadm --examine --scan --config=partitions ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid0 num-devices=2 UUID=832ab839:9920da12:97991965:f9af96e2 devices=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1,/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/part1 ARRAY /dev/md1 level=linear num-devices=2 UUID=8eb3a6c0:02e58fd9:a662938a:56f87147 devices=/dev/md/0,/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2 root@hvstress ~ # mdadm --assemble --scan mdadm: no devices found for /dev/md/1 root@hvstress ~ # cat /etc/mdadm.conf DEVICE /dev/md/* /dev/sd* DEVICE /dev/sd[ab] DEVICE /dev/md0 DEVICE /dev/md/0 ARRAY /dev/md/0 level=raid0 num-devices=2 UUID=832ab839:9920da12:97991965:f9af96e2 devices=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1,/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/part1 ARRAY /dev/md/1 level=linear num-devices=2 UUID=c2a91233:5ffd5398:eac27773:e12945dd - 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