Roman Mamedov said: (by the date of Sat, 29 Jan 2011 01:21:56 +0500) > On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:15:34 +0100 > Janek Kozicki <janek_listy@xxxxx> wrote: > > > Is it possible that the order in which the arrays were created, > > matters? Because when it worked I created the sub-array first, and > > then I created the BIG array. And currently the sub-array is created > > after the BIG one. > > I believe the order in which they are listed in mdadm.conf matters here. > And after changing that file, you may need to rebuild your initramfs > (on current Debian, "update-initramfs -k all -u"). Hi, backup:~# cat /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf | grep -v "#" DEVICE partitions CREATE owner=root group=disk mode=0660 auto=yes HOMEHOST <system> MAILADDR root ARRAY /dev/md/2 metadata=1.0 UUID=4fd340a6:c4db01d6:f71e03da:2dbdd574 name=backup:2 ARRAY /dev/md/6 metadata=1.1 UUID=78f253ba:5a19ff8a:6646aa2f:f5218d84 name=backup:6 ARRAY /dev/md/0 metadata=1.0 UUID=75b0f878:79539d6c:eef22092:f47a6e6f name=backup:0 ARRAY /dev/md/69 metadata=1.1 UUID=dd751cb0:63424a86:66b98082:4bd80dcb name=backup:69 The order, I think is correct, but I did not rebuild initramfs. I will try that and let you know, thanks. -- Janek Kozicki http://janek.kozicki.pl/ | -- 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