On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:36:08 -0500 Christian <cjs703@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Here it is again, there were a few other messages in there at the beginning. > > [70745.855861] md: md1 stopped. > [70745.859303] md: bind<sdm1> > [70745.859576] md: bind<sdr1> > [70745.859720] md: bind<sds1> > [70745.860265] md: bind<sdq1> > [70745.860428] md: bind<sdk1> > [70745.860680] md: bind<sdf1> > [70745.860839] md: bind<sdg1> > [70745.860986] md: bind<sdl1> > [70745.861169] md: bind<sde1> > [70745.861359] md: bind<sdt1> > [70745.861407] md: kicking non-fresh sds1 from array! > [70745.861411] md: unbind<sds1> > [70745.870570] md: export_rdev(sds1) > [70745.870598] md: kicking non-fresh sdm1 from array! That shouldn't happen when you use -f .... Could be that you hit the mdadm bug fixed by commit 67a8c82d606 which is in mdadm-2.6 What version of mdadm are you running??? (I note you have got your data back by other means - good!) NeilBrown > [70745.870602] md: unbind<sdm1> > [70745.882561] md: export_rdev(sdm1) > [70745.883324] md/raid:md1: not clean -- starting background reconstruction > [70745.883333] md/raid:md1: device sdt1 operational as raid disk 1 > [70745.883335] md/raid:md1: device sde1 operational as raid disk 9 > [70745.883337] md/raid:md1: device sdl1 operational as raid disk 8 > [70745.883339] md/raid:md1: device sdg1 operational as raid disk 7 > [70745.883340] md/raid:md1: device sdf1 operational as raid disk 6 > [70745.883342] md/raid:md1: device sdk1 operational as raid disk 5 > [70745.883344] md/raid:md1: device sdq1 operational as raid disk 4 > [70745.883345] md/raid:md1: device sdr1 operational as raid disk 2 > [70745.884038] md/raid:md1: allocated 10572kB > [70745.884057] md/raid:md1: cannot start dirty degraded array. > [70745.884065] RAID conf printout: > [70745.884066] --- level:6 rd:10 wd:8 > [70745.884068] disk 1, o:1, dev:sdt1 > [70745.884069] disk 2, o:1, dev:sdr1 > [70745.884070] disk 4, o:1, dev:sdq1 > [70745.884072] disk 5, o:1, dev:sdk1 > [70745.884073] disk 6, o:1, dev:sdf1 > [70745.884074] disk 7, o:1, dev:sdg1 > [70745.884076] disk 8, o:1, dev:sdl1 > [70745.884077] disk 9, o:1, dev:sde1 > [70745.884370] md/raid:md1: failed to run raid set. > [70745.884372] md: pers->run() failed ... -- 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