On Monday October 22, marc@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hello, > > I am having a rather urgent and annoying problem and I would appreciate > some input from anyone who has come across this. I have not been able to > find a solution as of yet. My issue deals with nested raid using mdadm, > and it seems that upon a reboot mdadm is attempting to assemble the larger > array before the smaller component array is created, and thus it is > failing. > > I have a degraded raid 5 array md1 whch is composed of hda1 and md0. Upon > a reboot, mdadm attempts to build md1 before md0 is built. It fails, so > md1 is not build and I need to assemble it manually. > > Is there a solution for this? What order are the arrays listed in in mdadm.conf? If md1 comes first, put it last. Otherwise, I cannot think what might be happening. Maybe if you include some kernel logs that might help. > > Thanks you for your time, > > Marc > > p.s. I would like to also take a second to express my gratitude to Neil > Brown for the mdadm utility. I have found it very useful and it has made > working with raid in linux very enjoyable and straight-forward! Thanks :-) NeilBrown - 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
