Tor Arne Vestbø wrote: > Neil Brown wrote: >> If a partition start at an offset in the device which is a multiple of >> 64K, and ends at the end of the device, then both the partition and >> the whole device will appear to have the same superblock. This can >> cause confusion. > > I think you are on to something here! I did partition all my disks with > just one partition, starting on the first block and taking up all the > remaining space, and set it to type Linux RAID auto detect. [snip] > So is this a case of the problem you described about > superblock-confusion? If so, is it fixable? It appears it is :) For googlability, here's what I did: Changed the DEVICE line in my mdadm.conf from: DEVICE partitions to DEVICE /dev/sd[bcdef]1 Now the array is assembled correctly at boot. I'm still confused why the device nodes went missing as a result of the failed assembly earlier, but that's a minor issue I can live with :) Tor Arne -- 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
