Hallo! Here we have another problem with our RAID6 and 16 HDDs: monosan:~ # mdadm -V mdadm - v2.6.2 - 21st May 2007 monosan:~ # mdadm -C /dev/md4 -l6 -n 16 -x 0 /dev/dm-* mdadm: /dev/dm-0 appears to be part of a raid array: level=raid6 devices=15 ctime=Wed Feb 13 10:38:52 2008 mdadm: /dev/dm-1 appears to be part of a raid array: level=raid6 devices=15 ctime=Wed Feb 13 10:38:52 2008 mdadm: /dev/dm-10 appears to be part of a raid array: level=raid6 devices=15 ctime=Wed Feb 13 10:38:52 2008 mdadm: /dev/dm-11 appears to contain an ext2fs file system size=-2147483648K mtime=Thu Jan 1 01:00:00 1970 mdadm: /dev/dm-11 appears to be part of a raid array: level=raid6 devices=15 ctime=Wed Feb 13 10:38:52 2008 mdadm: /dev/dm-12 appears to be part of a raid array: level=raid6 devices=15 ctime=Wed Feb 13 10:38:52 2008 mdadm: /dev/dm-13 appears to be part of a raid array: level=raid6 devices=15 ctime=Wed Feb 13 10:38:52 2008 mdadm: /dev/dm-14 appears to be part of a raid array: level=raid6 devices=15 ctime=Wed Feb 13 10:38:52 2008 mdadm: /dev/dm-2 appears to be part of a raid array: level=raid6 devices=15 ctime=Wed Feb 13 10:38:52 2008 mdadm: /dev/dm-3 appears to be part of a raid array: level=raid6 devices=15 ctime=Wed Feb 13 10:38:52 2008 mdadm: /dev/dm-4 appears to be part of a raid array: level=raid6 devices=15 ctime=Wed Feb 13 10:38:52 2008 mdadm: /dev/dm-5 appears to be part of a raid array: level=raid6 devices=15 ctime=Wed Feb 13 10:38:52 2008 mdadm: /dev/dm-6 appears to be part of a raid array: level=raid6 devices=15 ctime=Wed Feb 13 10:38:52 2008 mdadm: /dev/dm-7 appears to be part of a raid array: level=raid6 devices=15 ctime=Wed Feb 13 10:38:52 2008 Continue creating array? y mdadm: array /dev/md4 started. monosan:~ # mdadm --detail --scan| fgrep md4 >> /etc/mdadm.conf monosan:~ # mdadm -S /dev/md4 mdadm: stopped /dev/md4 monosan:~ # mdadm -A /dev/md4 mdadm: WARNING /dev/dm-9 and /dev/dm-8 appear to have very similar superblocks. If they are really different, please --zero the superblock on one If they are the same or overlap, please remove one from the DEVICE list in mdadm.conf. This happens _always_ when the arreay is reassembled. The actual devices with the duplicated superblocks differ sometimes. Are 16 drives too much for RAID6? Thanks 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