An odd one here. Ubuntu 12.04 system, updated to 3.4.0 kernel from the mainline-ppa. Machine has a boot disk plus 12 other disks in a RAID10 far2 array. System was working fine, but after most recent reboot mdraid failed to assemble. root@dev-storage1:~# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] md127 : inactive sdk[9](S) sdl[10](S) sdj[8](S) sdg[5](S) sdc[1](S) sdm[11](S) sdf[4](S) sde[3](S) sdi[7](S) sdd[2](S) sdb[0](S) sdh[6](S) 35163186720 blocks super 1.2 unused devices: <none> dmesg shows periodic "export_rdev" messages: root@dev-storage1:~# dmesg | grep md: [ 953.986401] md: export_rdev(sdo) [ 953.988515] md: export_rdev(sdo) [ 960.237392] md: export_rdev(sdp) [ 960.241928] md: export_rdev(sdp) [ 960.965132] md: export_rdev(sdr) [ 960.967265] md: export_rdev(sdr) [ 1012.573415] md: export_rdev(sdo) [ 1012.575650] md: export_rdev(sdo) [ 1012.829690] md: export_rdev(sdp) [ 1012.831493] md: export_rdev(sdp) ... [19378.332473] md: export_rdev(sds) [19378.333764] md: export_rdev(sds) [19417.220171] md: export_rdev(sdr) [19417.221748] md: export_rdev(sdr) [23739.824227] md: export_rdev(sdr) [23739.825554] md: export_rdev(sdr) [23740.568940] md: export_rdev(sds) [23740.570079] md: export_rdev(sds) metadata (see below) suggests that some drives think members 1/3/4 are missing, but those drives think the array is fine. The "Events" counts are different on some members though. What's the best thing to do here - attempt to force assembly? Any ideas how it got into this state? The machine was rebooted a couple of times but in what should have been a clean way, i.e. sudo reboot or sudo halt -p. Many thanks, Brian. root@dev-storage1:~# for i in /dev/sd{j..u}; do echo "=== $i ==="; mdadm --examine $i; done === /dev/sdj === /dev/sdj: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : 16b260fd:e49bd157:da886cd0:5394e194 Name : storage1:storage1 Creation Time : Thu Jun 7 13:51:21 2012 Raid Level : raid10 Raid Devices : 12 Avail Dev Size : 5860531120 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Array Size : 35163168768 (16767.11 GiB 18003.54 GB) Used Dev Size : 5860528128 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : e96965d5:bf8986b7:fa83b813:e27aa17f Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Tue Jul 10 10:46:19 2012 Checksum : 5673ac95 - correct Events : 29374 Layout : far=2 Chunk Size : 1024K Device Role : Active device 8 Array State : A.A..AAAAAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) === /dev/sdk === /dev/sdk: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : 16b260fd:e49bd157:da886cd0:5394e194 Name : storage1:storage1 Creation Time : Thu Jun 7 13:51:21 2012 Raid Level : raid10 Raid Devices : 12 Avail Dev Size : 5860531120 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Array Size : 35163168768 (16767.11 GiB 18003.54 GB) Used Dev Size : 5860528128 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : f15bb47f:85ca59b1:cad42dec:f8b1b63c Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Tue Jul 10 10:46:19 2012 Checksum : 9020674a - correct Events : 29374 Layout : far=2 Chunk Size : 1024K Device Role : Active device 9 Array State : A.A..AAAAAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) === /dev/sdl === /dev/sdl: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : 16b260fd:e49bd157:da886cd0:5394e194 Name : storage1:storage1 Creation Time : Thu Jun 7 13:51:21 2012 Raid Level : raid10 Raid Devices : 12 Avail Dev Size : 5860531120 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Array Size : 35163168768 (16767.11 GiB 18003.54 GB) Used Dev Size : 5860528128 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : e2d82a4c:8409d883:cf2d9b7c:83829aad Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Tue Jul 10 10:46:19 2012 Checksum : 30664ccb - correct Events : 29374 Layout : far=2 Chunk Size : 1024K Device Role : Active device 10 Array State : A.A..AAAAAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) === /dev/sdm === /dev/sdm: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : 16b260fd:e49bd157:da886cd0:5394e194 Name : storage1:storage1 Creation Time : Thu Jun 7 13:51:21 2012 Raid Level : raid10 Raid Devices : 12 Avail Dev Size : 5860531120 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Array Size : 35163168768 (16767.11 GiB 18003.54 GB) Used Dev Size : 5860528128 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : e3603570:8e767487:63f3131b:afe358ea Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Tue Jul 10 10:46:19 2012 Checksum : 33446897 - correct Events : 29374 Layout : far=2 Chunk Size : 1024K Device Role : Active device 11 Array State : A.A..AAAAAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) === /dev/sdn === /dev/sdn: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : 16b260fd:e49bd157:da886cd0:5394e194 Name : storage1:storage1 Creation Time : Thu Jun 7 13:51:21 2012 Raid Level : raid10 Raid Devices : 12 Avail Dev Size : 5860531120 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Array Size : 35163168768 (16767.11 GiB 18003.54 GB) Used Dev Size : 5860528128 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 549a5230:005cedf8:b37a0d7e:36648ff0 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Tue Jul 10 10:46:19 2012 Checksum : ce0a8f46 - correct Events : 29374 Layout : far=2 Chunk Size : 1024K Device Role : Active device 0 Array State : A.A..AAAAAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) === /dev/sdo === /dev/sdo: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : 16b260fd:e49bd157:da886cd0:5394e194 Name : storage1:storage1 Creation Time : Thu Jun 7 13:51:21 2012 Raid Level : raid10 Raid Devices : 12 Avail Dev Size : 5860531120 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Array Size : 35163168768 (16767.11 GiB 18003.54 GB) Used Dev Size : 5860528128 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : active Device UUID : b09f3869:09ce8a89:31ed7097:d3621064 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Sat Jul 7 14:02:07 2012 Checksum : 246eb119 - correct Events : 29355 Layout : far=2 Chunk Size : 1024K Device Role : Active device 2 Array State : A.A..AAAAAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) === /dev/sdp === /dev/sdp: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : 16b260fd:e49bd157:da886cd0:5394e194 Name : storage1:storage1 Creation Time : Thu Jun 7 13:51:21 2012 Raid Level : raid10 Raid Devices : 12 Avail Dev Size : 5860531120 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Array Size : 35163168768 (16767.11 GiB 18003.54 GB) Used Dev Size : 5860528128 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : active Device UUID : 71494ee2:1504b35a:00a1d927:543db7c6 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Sat Jul 7 14:00:55 2012 Checksum : 61c11eeb - correct Events : 29352 Layout : far=2 Chunk Size : 1024K Device Role : Active device 3 Array State : A.AA.AAAAAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) === /dev/sdq === /dev/sdq: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : 16b260fd:e49bd157:da886cd0:5394e194 Name : storage1:storage1 Creation Time : Thu Jun 7 13:51:21 2012 Raid Level : raid10 Raid Devices : 12 Avail Dev Size : 5860531120 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Array Size : 35163168768 (16767.11 GiB 18003.54 GB) Used Dev Size : 5860528128 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 17fcd5b8:97fc715f:0877d022:3770d08b Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Tue Jul 10 10:46:19 2012 Checksum : fd1699fc - correct Events : 29374 Layout : far=2 Chunk Size : 1024K Device Role : Active device 7 Array State : A.A..AAAAAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) === /dev/sdr === /dev/sdr: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : 16b260fd:e49bd157:da886cd0:5394e194 Name : storage1:storage1 Creation Time : Thu Jun 7 13:51:21 2012 Raid Level : raid10 Raid Devices : 12 Avail Dev Size : 5860531120 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Array Size : 35163168768 (16767.11 GiB 18003.54 GB) Used Dev Size : 5860528128 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : e0565412:a68cf236:9da9a141:e89f935a Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Tue Jul 3 04:21:50 2012 Checksum : 1ba72ec1 - correct Events : 20228 Layout : far=2 Chunk Size : 1024K Device Role : Active device 1 Array State : AAAAAAAAAAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) === /dev/sds === /dev/sds: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : 16b260fd:e49bd157:da886cd0:5394e194 Name : storage1:storage1 Creation Time : Thu Jun 7 13:51:21 2012 Raid Level : raid10 Raid Devices : 12 Avail Dev Size : 5860531120 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Array Size : 35163168768 (16767.11 GiB 18003.54 GB) Used Dev Size : 5860528128 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : active Device UUID : c0f3bbab:70f3e69e:1314cdca:072d5ad9 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Tue Jul 3 06:37:33 2012 Checksum : 24f36d4c - correct Events : 29312 Layout : far=2 Chunk Size : 1024K Device Role : Active device 5 Array State : A.AA.AAAAAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) === /dev/sdt === /dev/sdt: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : 16b260fd:e49bd157:da886cd0:5394e194 Name : storage1:storage1 Creation Time : Thu Jun 7 13:51:21 2012 Raid Level : raid10 Raid Devices : 12 Avail Dev Size : 5860531120 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Array Size : 35163168768 (16767.11 GiB 18003.54 GB) Used Dev Size : 5860528128 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 6b4f9595:4de46aa8:fa695fe8:59b797e7 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Tue Jul 10 10:46:19 2012 Checksum : 44250f1b - correct Events : 29374 Layout : far=2 Chunk Size : 1024K Device Role : Active device 6 Array State : A.A..AAAAAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) === /dev/sdu === /dev/sdu: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : 16b260fd:e49bd157:da886cd0:5394e194 Name : storage1:storage1 Creation Time : Thu Jun 7 13:51:21 2012 Raid Level : raid10 Raid Devices : 12 Avail Dev Size : 5860531120 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Array Size : 35163168768 (16767.11 GiB 18003.54 GB) Used Dev Size : 5860528128 (2794.52 GiB 3000.59 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : active Device UUID : 46f03854:de80bec8:b44b062c:dd265ba3 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Tue Jul 3 06:36:18 2012 Checksum : 22812848 - correct Events : 29272 Layout : far=2 Chunk Size : 1024K Device Role : Active device 4 Array State : A.AAAAAAAAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) -- 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