Neil Brown wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:15:11 +0100 > David Watson <David.Watson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 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. >> > > Long posts are good.... > However I cannot see in your long post what the actual problem is. > You have given no evidence that anything degrades on boot. > No kernel logs, no "/proc/mdstat immediately after boot"... > > More info please. > > NeilBrown > -- Trivial error: /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf DEVICE /dev/sda* /deb/sdb* /dev/sdc* /dev/sdd* Typo: /deb/sdb* should have been /dev/sdb* Apologies, its taken a week for me to spot this. Array now remains synchronised through a reboot. Thanks David Watson -- 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