Hi Neil, Am 08.02.2012 02:57, schrieb NeilBrown: > Probably mdmon isn't running for some reason. > > For these arrays the metadata is managed in user-space by mdmon. > Until it is ready to record failures the array must remain readonly. > On of the first things it does is switch the array to read-write, having > arranged to catch any failure notifications. > > If you > > mdmon --all --takeover > > it might just start working. However that doesn't explain why mdmon wasn't > started at boot. mdadm is meant to start it. > There are some concerns about mdmon starting this way being not "the right > thing" from a systemd perspective and there might be some issues there that > are causing problems. You're correct the mdmon does not run as the root filesystem is readonly and it cannot create a pid file... and the root filesystem stays readonly as the mdmon is not running... Greets Stefan -- 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