On Thu October 29 2009, Majed B. wrote: > When using newer kernels, did you update initrd? > > sudo update-initramfs -u -k all Yes I did. > Then reboot to a new kernel and see if it auto assembles. I don't have them auto assemble in initrd/initramfs. Its done later in the mdadm-raid script if I read it correctly. Its also a 1.1 metadata array, so the kernel can't auto assemble it itself. Just somehow it fails to build under 2.6.29+ but works fine under 2.6.26 with the same userspace. > 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 > -- 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
