Hi Neil, Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> schrieb: > > Any idea on the actual subject? > > I need you to try the --assemble with --verbose to find out what is > happening. > Use an earlier version of mdadm. (e.g. 2.6.4). this is the output: monosan:/usr/local/src/mdadm-2.6.4 # ./mdadm -Av /dev/md9 mdadm: looking for devices for /dev/md9 mdadm: cannot open device /dev/sdb2: Device or resource busy mdadm: /dev/sdb2 has wrong uuid. mdadm: cannot open device /dev/sdb1: Device or resource busy mdadm: /dev/sdb1 has wrong uuid. mdadm: cannot open device /dev/sda3: Device or resource busy mdadm: /dev/sda3 has wrong uuid. mdadm: cannot open device /dev/sda2: Device or resource busy mdadm: /dev/sda2 has wrong uuid. mdadm: cannot open device /dev/sda1: Device or resource busy mdadm: /dev/sda1 has wrong uuid. mdadm: cannot open device /dev/dm-9: Device or resource busy mdadm: /dev/dm-9 has wrong uuid. mdadm: cannot open device /dev/dm-8: Device or resource busy mdadm: /dev/dm-8 has wrong uuid. mdadm: cannot open device /dev/dm-7: Device or resource busy mdadm: /dev/dm-7 has wrong uuid. mdadm: cannot open device /dev/dm-6: Device or resource busy mdadm: /dev/dm-6 has wrong uuid. mdadm: cannot open device /dev/dm-5: Device or resource busy mdadm: /dev/dm-5 has wrong uuid. mdadm: cannot open device /dev/dm-4: Device or resource busy mdadm: /dev/dm-4 has wrong uuid. mdadm: cannot open device /dev/dm-3: Device or resource busy mdadm: /dev/dm-3 has wrong uuid. mdadm: cannot open device /dev/dm-2: Device or resource busy mdadm: /dev/dm-2 has wrong uuid. mdadm: /dev/dm-17 has wrong uuid. mdadm: cannot open device /dev/dm-15: Device or resource busy mdadm: /dev/dm-15 has wrong uuid. mdadm: cannot open device /dev/dm-14: Device or resource busy mdadm: /dev/dm-14 has wrong uuid. mdadm: cannot open device /dev/dm-13: Device or resource busy mdadm: /dev/dm-13 has wrong uuid. mdadm: cannot open device /dev/dm-12: Device or resource busy mdadm: /dev/dm-12 has wrong uuid. mdadm: cannot open device /dev/dm-11: Device or resource busy mdadm: /dev/dm-11 has wrong uuid. mdadm: cannot open device /dev/dm-10: Device or resource busy mdadm: /dev/dm-10 has wrong uuid. mdadm: cannot open device /dev/dm-1: Device or resource busy mdadm: /dev/dm-1 has wrong uuid. mdadm: /dev/dm-0 has wrong uuid. mdadm: /dev/dm-16 is identified as a member of /dev/md9, slot 0. mdadm: no uptodate device for slot 1 of /dev/md9 mdadm: added /dev/dm-16 to /dev/md9 as 0 mdadm: /dev/md9 has been started with 1 drive (out of 2). # cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 8 0 160836480 sda 8 1 14354046 sda1 8 2 48829567 sda2 8 3 48829567 sda3 8 16 160836480 sdb 8 17 14354046 sdb1 8 18 48829567 sdb2 8 32 976762584 sdc ... 65 144 976762584 sdz 65 160 976762584 sdaa ... 66 16 976762584 sdah 9 2 14353920 md2 253 0 976762584 dm-0 ... 253 15 976762584 dm-15 9 3 48829440 md3 9 4 12697912448 md4 9 9 1074790336 md9 152 2832 1074790400 etherd/e11.1 253 16 1074790400 dm-16 253 17 8589934592 dm-17 dm-16 and etherd/e11.1 are the two parts of md9. monosan:/usr/local/src/mdadm-2.6.4 # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] [raid0] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md9 : active (auto-read-only) raid1 dm-16[0] 1074790336 blocks [2/1] [U_] Sorry for the voluminous outputs. :) Good luck. Lars -- 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