On Wednesday October 8, hvisage@envisage.co.za wrote: > 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 That would be because mdadm.conf describes /dev/md/1 as: UUID=c2a91233:5ffd5398:eac27773:e12945dd but mdadm --examine doesn't show any arrays with that uuid. NeilBrown > 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 - 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