On Thursday November 12, lrhorer@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Thursday 12 November 2009 11:12:30 pm you wrote: > > On Friday November 13, neilb@xxxxxxx wrote: > > > 1/ show us what the result of --examine was. > > > 2/ add -vvv to the --assemble and report the result of that. > > > > 3/ report the output of "mdadm -X /dev/list-of-devices" > > > > RAID-Server:/etc/cron.d# mdadm --examine /dev/sd[a-j] > /dev/sda: > Magic : a92b4efc > Version : 1.2 > Feature Map : 0x0 > Array UUID : 5ff10d73:a096195f:7a646bba:a68986ca > Name : RAID-Server:0 (local to host RAID-Server) Strangely this line is unique. Every other device has: > Name : 'RAID-Server':0 Where do those "'"s come from??? What exactly is listed in mdadm.conf for /dev/md0?? Other than that everything looks OK. The array hasn't been marked as having a bitmap, but the bitmap seems to have been created correctly, but not activated yet. And you didn't provide the output of mdadm --assemble -vvv .... That really should explain what is happening. NeilBrown -- 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