Perhaps this is the problem addressed in the 2.6.18.2 patch... But I thought I'd post it here just in case. I was cloning some drives, and ended up creating a 1 drive RAID1 array. After that was built, I decided to add my spare drive and allow the reconstruction to take care of things. As soon as I saw that reconstruction was taking place, I shutdown the system, put the drives away and closed the case. To my surprise, when I booted, I encountered numerous disk errors. Apparently the system decided to ues the partially reconstructed drive as the primary! And of course, it had no knowledge that reconstruction needed to continue. My data was hosed and I had to restart the cloning process. This was using on an FC5 system, using kernel 2.6.18. (2.6.18-1.2200-smp). This appears to be the same issue that Doug Ledford had in his posting "mdadm-2.5.4 issues and 2.6.18.1 kernel md issues" (appologies for the disclaimer below... Please don't hate us because we have lawyers). ********************************************************************** This e-mail is the property of Lantronix. It is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential, or otherwise protected from disclosure. Distribution or copying of this e-mail, or the information contained herein, to anyone other than the intended recipient is prohibited. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
