On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 22:42:11 -0800 Ross Boylan <ross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 12:45 +1100, NeilBrown wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:54:35 -0800 Ross Boylan <ross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > It still doesn't seem to me the 1 device arrays should have been > > > started, since they were inconsistent with mdadm.conf and not subject to > > > incremental assembly. This is an understanding problem, not an > > > operational problem: I'm glad the arrays did come up. Details below, > > > along with some other questions. > > > > Probably "mdadm -As" couldn't find anything to assemble based on the > > mdadm.conf file, so tried to auto-assemble anything it could find without > > concern for the ARRAY details in mdadm.conf. > That would explain why they came up, but seems to undercut the "must > match" condition given in the man page for mdadm.conf (excerpted just > below). Yeah, that's a bug. I've got a rough fix worked out, but I need to test it a bit yet. So mdadm-3.3 should behave differently. Thanks, NeilBrown
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