Hello, Recently I upgraded to 2Tb disks on one of my servers, I built a new degraded raid1 array: mdadm --create /dev/md7 -level 1 --raid-devices=2 missing /dev/sdd1 added its entry to /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf then I rebooted to add the second disk and added it to the array: mdadm --manage /dev/md7 --add /dev/sdb1 I updated /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf, although I noticed no difference in the output of: mdadm --detail --scan I use a monolithic kernel so there is no ramdisk to regenerate. This is my first 1.00 array, and the existing 0.9 arrays have never shown this issue. I have attempted the same process on a test server with no issues, and I can't really think of what to look at next. apologies for the long post. The array I'm having trouble with is md7, I'm on debian lenny # mdadm -V mdadm - v2.6.7.2 - 14th November 2008 After boot and a resync: # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [multipath] [faulty] md7 : active raid1 sdb1[2] sdd1[1] 1953511864 blocks super 1.0 [2/2] [UU] md1 : active raid1 sdc2[1] sda2[0] 497920 blocks [2/2] [UU] md2 : active raid1 sdc5[1] sda5[0] 3911680 blocks [2/2] [UU] md3 : active raid1 sdc6[1] sda6[0] 4891648 blocks [2/2] [UU] md4 : active raid1 sdc7[1] sda7[0] 3911680 blocks [2/2] [UU] md5 : active raid1 sdc8[1] sda8[0] 276872128 blocks [2/2] [UU] md0 : active raid1 sdc1[1] sda1[0] 1959808 blocks [2/2] [UU] unused devices: <none> # mdadm --detail --scan ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2 metadata=00.90 UUID=b43f6098:06acab7b:580ff883:3ab60d5b ARRAY /dev/md5 level=raid1 num-devices=2 metadata=00.90 UUID=eaa425c7:502672ee:dabc9034:1a71332c ARRAY /dev/md4 level=raid1 num-devices=2 metadata=00.90 UUID=2b48f938:99b2b0e3:519fddc6:1290322f ARRAY /dev/md3 level=raid1 num-devices=2 metadata=00.90 UUID=ccad63d9:d0b7c626:8348c59b:766a05a5 ARRAY /dev/md2 level=raid1 num-devices=2 metadata=00.90 UUID=bc9c8e72:de7eb7fb:231484db:a9ec47c7 ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid1 num-devices=2 metadata=00.90 UUID=e047f745:4ba432d8:26e9533e:8c2555b4 ARRAY /dev/md7 level=raid1 num-devices=2 metadata=01.00 name=7 UUID=0ed787fb:7d7c6b5c:82113c0c:b30493e3 # cat /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf DEVICE /dev/sda* /deb/sdb* /dev/sdc* /dev/sdd* CREATE owner=root group=disk mode=0660 auto=yes metadata=1 MAILADDR root ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=b43f6098:06acab7b:580ff883:3ab60d5b ARRAY /dev/md5 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=eaa425c7:502672ee:dabc9034:1a71332c ARRAY /dev/md4 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=2b48f938:99b2b0e3:519fddc6:1290322f ARRAY /dev/md3 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=ccad63d9:d0b7c626:8348c59b:766a05a5 ARRAY /dev/md2 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=bc9c8e72:de7eb7fb:231484db:a9ec47c7 ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=e047f745:4ba432d8:26e9533e:8c2555b4 ARRAY /dev/md7 level=raid1 num-devices=2 metadata=1.0 name=7 UUID=0ed787fb:7d7c6b5c:82113c0c:b30493e3 # mdadm -E /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.0 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 0ed787fb:7d7c6b5c:82113c0c:b30493e3 Name : 7 Creation Time : Fri Jun 4 12:19:54 2010 Raid Level : raid1 Raid Devices : 2 Avail Dev Size : 3907023728 (1863.01 GiB 2000.40 GB) Array Size : 3907023728 (1863.01 GiB 2000.40 GB) Super Offset : 3907023984 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 99055997:7584cb3c:12f75ae1:dbbc5dfa Update Time : Thu Jun 17 10:52:58 2010 Checksum : f3904db3 - correct Events : 10260 Array Slot : 2 (failed, 1, 0) Array State : Uu 1 failed # mdadm -E /dev/sdd1 /dev/sdd1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.0 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 0ed787fb:7d7c6b5c:82113c0c:b30493e3 Name : 7 Creation Time : Fri Jun 4 12:19:54 2010 Raid Level : raid1 Raid Devices : 2 Avail Dev Size : 3907023728 (1863.01 GiB 2000.40 GB) Array Size : 3907023728 (1863.01 GiB 2000.40 GB) Super Offset : 3907023984 sectors State : clean Device UUID : b5defada:b9882124:28febea7:7775802f Update Time : Thu Jun 17 10:52:58 2010 Checksum : 1a0eeac4 - correct Events : 10260 Array Slot : 1 (failed, 1, 0) Array State : uU 1 failed # fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 2000.3 GB, 2000398934016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x4bf7ec5a Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 243201 1953512001 da Non-FS data # fdisk -l /dev/sdd Disk /dev/sdd: 2000.3 GB, 2000398934016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x81e47a11 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdd1 1 243201 1953512001 da Non-FS data buildstore:~# -- 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