Update on progress.... I have managed to hack together a dracut created initramfs that has me able to boot and has resolved all boot issues. Will let this thing have a few hours of resyncing and see if external bitmap comes back and how it handles the reboot. Thanks again for the assistance. On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Randy Terbush <randy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks Dan, a few more steps forward here. I suspect I know the > answer, but will see what you suggest. > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> This shows that Gentoo is most likely not including mdmon in their initramfs >> environment. mdadm assembles the array readonly, but then mdmon is required >> to mark the array writable. > > Looks like you are correct and current installation packages on Gentoo > have apparently not dealt with these changes. mdmon is not getting > started and is not being attempted anywhere. > > I don't run an initrd, so attempted to start mdmon after the mdadm -As > runs. This is apparently too early in the process as I get the > following: > > * Starting up RAID devices ... > [ ok ] > mdmon: Neither /var/run nor /lib/init/rw are writable > cannot create .pid or .sock files. Aborting > * Setting up the Logical Volume Manager ... > [ ok ] > * Checking local filesystems ... > HOME-vg0: clean, 13/3276800 files, 256151/52428800 blocks > Warning... fsck.ext4 for device /dev/mapper/vg0-home exited with signal 11. > SVN-vg0: clean, 191/1638400 files, 153087/26214400 blocks > Warning... fsck.ext4 for device /dev/mapper/vg0-svn exited with signal 11. > ARCHIVE-vg0: clean, 12/1638400 files, 152150/26214400 blocks > > So it appears the start of mdmon needs to wait until we have a rw > filesystem mounted. Not entirely sure if it is related, but as you can > see above, fsck blows up trying to check the filesystems on this > array. That appears to clear itself up once mdmon is running. After > starting mdmon by hand, the resync begins and I can successfully run > fsck on these partitions. > > So looks like I have a chicken and egg problem that I suspect may be > solved by creating an initramfs. I took a quick pass at dracut but > could not convince it to add mdmon. Any hints appreciated as I go back > to dig for more info. > > Thanks again for the assistance. > -- 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
