When using newer kernels, did you update initrd? sudo update-initramfs -u -k all Then reboot to a new kernel and see if it auto assembles. On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu October 29 2009, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: >> I've been trying to get mdadm to auto assemble my raid array for a while >> now, and as I'm trying to test which kernels give me back some >> performance (testing 2.6.26 right now), I find that with this kernel, >> its happily auto assembling my 1.1 versioned metadata array. 3.6.30 does >> not, nor does .31 or .32 for that matter. Same version of mdadm, for >> some reason, when the mdadm-raid init script is run, it fails to >> assemble the raid array I've specified in mdadm.conf. And again, it >> automagically works with 2.6.26. >> >> color me confused. >> > > I totally forgot: > > root@natasha:/home/moose# mdadm --version > mdadm - v3.0.3 - 22nd October 2009 > > root@natasha:/home/moose# uname -a > Linux natasha 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Aug 19 22:33:18 UTC 2009 x86_64 > GNU/Linux > > root@natasha:/home/moose# mdadm -D /dev/md0 > /dev/md0: > Version : 1.01 > Creation Time : Wed Oct 14 08:55:25 2009 > Raid Level : raid5 > Array Size : 3907049472 (3726.05 GiB 4000.82 GB) > Used Dev Size : 976762368 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB) > Raid Devices : 5 > Total Devices : 5 > Persistence : Superblock is persistent > > Update Time : Thu Oct 29 01:28:10 2009 > State : clean > Active Devices : 5 > Working Devices : 5 > Failed Devices : 0 > Spare Devices : 0 > > Layout : left-symmetric > Chunk Size : 512K > > Name : natasha:0 (local to host natasha) > UUID : 7d0e9847:ec3a4a46:32b60a80:06d0ee1c > Events : 4952 > > Number Major Minor RaidDevice State > 0 8 64 0 active sync /dev/sde > 1 8 80 1 active sync /dev/sdf > 2 8 32 2 active sync /dev/sdc > 3 8 48 3 active sync /dev/sdd > 5 8 96 4 active sync /dev/sdg > > > And I'm running Debian Sid. > > -- > Thomas Fjellstrom > tfjellstrom@xxxxxxx > -- > 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 > -- Majed B. -- 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
