Hallo list, I'm new to this list. But I came across some strange problems I nowhere found a solution for on the net. This is our situation: monosan + duosan: Linux duosan 2.6.22.17-0.1-default #1 SMP 2008/02/10 20:01:04 UTC x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux /proc/cpuinfo: [...] processor : 3 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 65 model name : Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2216 stepping : 3 cpu MHz : 2412.402 cache size : 1024 KB physical id : 1 siblings : 2 core id : 1 cpu cores : 2 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy bogomips : 4825.08 TLB size : 1024 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc SAS controller: 07:00.0 Ethernet controller: MYRICOM Inc. Myri-10G Dual-Protocol NIC (10G-PCIE-8A) There are 16 SATA drives multipathed connected to each server. duosan exports its RAID 6 over AoE via qaoed monosan sees this as etherd/e22.0 monosan# cat /proc/partitions: 9 4 12697912448 md4 9 9 12697912312 md9 152 5632 12697912448 etherd/e22.0 monosan:~ # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] [raid0] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md9 : active raid1 md4[0] 12697912312 blocks super 1.0 [2/1] [U_] md4 : active raid6 dm-0[0] dm-8[14] dm-7[13] dm-6[12] dm-5[11] dm-4[10] dm-3[9] dm-2[8] dm-14[7] dm-13[6] dm-12[5] dm-11[4] dm-10[3] dm-9[2] dm-1[1] 12697912448 blocks level 6, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [15/15] [UUUUUUUUUUUUUUU] But then this: monosan:~ # mdadm /dev/md9 -a /dev/etherd/e22.0 mdadm: /dev/etherd/e22.0 not large enough to join array The md9 RAID1 was originally built with e22.0 as second drive. I just simulated a connection loss. Why is this happening? As you can see md9 consists of md4 and e22.0 and both are equal in size: 12697912448 . How can I debug this? Are there detailed logs anywhere? Many thanks for any hint. Lars -- Informationstechnologie Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften Jägerstrasse 22-23 10117 Berlin Tel.: +49 30 20370-352 http://www.bbaw.de -- 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