Hi, ok your absolutely right. i searched to logfiles in var/log but found nothing about superblock. but as i wrote i worked with phil at this problem and in my outputbox i found an email with information before this: Here the output oft Option "-D" -------------------------------------------------------------- mdadm -D /dev/md2 /dev/md2: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Tue Jul 24 18:18:21 2012 Raid Level : raid5 Used Dev Size : -1 Raid Devices : 6 Total Devices : 4 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Mon Dec 17 00:13:56 2012 State : active, FAILED, Not Started Active Devices : 4 Working Devices : 4 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Name : mfsnode1:2 (local to host mfsnode1) UUID : 92a99ca0:8e22bc66:f8050881:78c344d9 Events : 211768 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 4 0 active sync /dev/sda4 1 8 20 1 active sync /dev/sdb4 2 8 36 2 active sync /dev/sdc4 3 0 0 3 removed 4 8 68 4 active sync /dev/sde4 5 0 0 5 removed -------------------------------------------------------------- mdadm -E /dev/sda4 /dev/sda4: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 92a99ca0:8e22bc66:f8050881:78c344d9 Name : mfsnode1:2 (local to host mfsnode1) Creation Time : Tue Jul 24 18:18:21 2012 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 6 Avail Dev Size : 5842757597 (2786.04 GiB 2991.49 GB) Array Size : 29213783040 (13930.22 GiB 14957.46 GB) Used Dev Size : 5842756608 (2786.04 GiB 2991.49 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 6a679a1d:f42d6b9f:a13cd977:0fdbea86 Update Time : Mon Dec 17 00:13:56 2012 Checksum : 8c50873e - correct Events : 211768 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 0 Array State : AAA.A. ('A' == active, '.' == missing) -------------------------------------------------------------- mdadm -E /dev/sdb4 /dev/sdb4: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 92a99ca0:8e22bc66:f8050881:78c344d9 Name : mfsnode1:2 (local to host mfsnode1) Creation Time : Tue Jul 24 18:18:21 2012 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 6 Avail Dev Size : 5842757597 (2786.04 GiB 2991.49 GB) Array Size : 29213783040 (13930.22 GiB 14957.46 GB) Used Dev Size : 5842756608 (2786.04 GiB 2991.49 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 099f7aa0:9f7a0802:2a874b3a:259431c6 Update Time : Mon Dec 17 00:13:56 2012 Checksum : 73870f28 - correct Events : 211768 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 1 Array State : AAA.A. ('A' == active, '.' == missing) -------------------------------------------------------------- mdadm -E /dev/sdc4 /dev/sdc4: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 92a99ca0:8e22bc66:f8050881:78c344d9 Name : mfsnode1:2 (local to host mfsnode1) Creation Time : Tue Jul 24 18:18:21 2012 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 6 Avail Dev Size : 5842757597 (2786.04 GiB 2991.49 GB) Array Size : 29213783040 (13930.22 GiB 14957.46 GB) Used Dev Size : 5842756608 (2786.04 GiB 2991.49 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 41f58710:f1658674:4980a5ae:a9c674b3 Update Time : Mon Dec 17 00:13:56 2012 Checksum : b7af7c56 - correct Events : 211768 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 2 Array State : AAA.A. ('A' == active, '.' == missing) -------------------------------------------------------------- mdadm -E /dev/sdd4 /dev/sdd4: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 92a99ca0:8e22bc66:f8050881:78c344d9 Name : mfsnode1:2 (local to host mfsnode1) Creation Time : Tue Jul 24 18:18:21 2012 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 6 Avail Dev Size : 5842757597 (2786.04 GiB 2991.49 GB) Array Size : 29213783040 (13930.22 GiB 14957.46 GB) Used Dev Size : 5842756608 (2786.04 GiB 2991.49 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 53e3bb36:58d746d3:52012491:f518b985 Update Time : Mon Dec 17 00:13:56 2012 Checksum : f16373f1 - correct Events : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : spare Array State : AAA.A. ('A' == active, '.' == missing) -------------------------------------------------------------- mdadm -E /dev/sde4 /dev/sde4: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 92a99ca0:8e22bc66:f8050881:78c344d9 Name : mfsnode1:2 (local to host mfsnode1) Creation Time : Tue Jul 24 18:18:21 2012 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 6 Avail Dev Size : 5842756608 (2786.04 GiB 2991.49 GB) Array Size : 29213783040 (13930.22 GiB 14957.46 GB) Data Offset : 1024 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 570b6ed0:9be27d23:6db489de:9c5ddf30 Update Time : Mon Dec 17 00:13:56 2012 Checksum : d3dbd252 - correct Events : 211768 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 4 Array State : AAA.A. ('A' == active, '.' == missing) -------------------------------------------------------------- mdadm -E /dev/sdf4 /dev/sdf4: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 92a99ca0:8e22bc66:f8050881:78c344d9 Name : mfsnode1:2 (local to host mfsnode1) Creation Time : Tue Jul 24 18:18:21 2012 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 6 Avail Dev Size : 5842756608 (2786.04 GiB 2991.49 GB) Array Size : 29213783040 (13930.22 GiB 14957.46 GB) Data Offset : 1024 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 3718659d:78d3c607:69c0d241:009a0ef6 Update Time : Mon Dec 17 00:13:56 2012 Checksum : ad90dd3a - correct Events : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : spare Array State : AAA.A. ('A' == active, '.' == missing) -------------------------------------------------------------- cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md2 : inactive sda4[0] sde4[4] sdc4[2] sdb4[1] 11685514699 blocks super 1.2 md1 : active (auto-read-only) raid5 sda3[0] sdf3[5] sde3[4] sdd3[3] sdc3[2] sdb3[1] 4881920 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 512k chunk, algorithm 2 [6/6] [UUUUUU] md0 : active raid1 sda2[0] sdf2[5] sde2[4] sdd2[3] sdc2[2] sdb2[1] 7811464 blocks super 1.2 [6/6] [UUUUUU] unused devices: <none> -------------------------------------------------------------- dmesg |grep md2 [ 2.497112] md: md2 stopped. [ 2.522264] raid5: allocated 6386kB for md2 [ 2.522456] raid5: not enough operational devices for md2 (2/6 failed) [ 2.522780] raid5: failed to run raid set md2 -------------------------------------------------------------- dmesg |grep sd[a,b,c,d,e,f]4 [ 1.183060] sdf: sdd1 sdd2 sdd3 sdd4 [ 1.211480] sdc1 sdc2 sdc3 sdc4 [ 1.212753] sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 [ 1.214156] sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdb4 [ 1.221997] sdf1 sdf2 sdf3 sdf4 [ 1.249067] sde1 sde2 sde3 sde4 [ 2.502642] md: bind<sdb4> [ 2.505288] md: bind<sdc4> [ 2.505426] md: bind<sde4> [ 2.505521] md: bind<sdf4> [ 2.505613] md: export_rdev(sdd4) [ 2.505823] md: bind<sda4> [ 2.505884] md: kicking non-fresh sdf4 from array! [ 2.505898] md: unbind<sdf4> [ 2.520389] md: export_rdev(sdf4) [ 2.521897] raid5: device sda4 operational as raid disk 0 [ 2.521900] raid5: device sde4 operational as raid disk 4 [ 2.521902] raid5: device sdc4 operational as raid disk 2 [ 2.521904] raid5: device sdb4 operational as raid disk 1 [ 2.522510] disk 0, o:1, dev:sda4 [ 2.522512] disk 1, o:1, dev:sdb4 [ 2.522513] disk 2, o:1, dev:sdc4 [ 2.522515] disk 4, o:1, dev:sde4 ------------------------------------------------ behaps this could bring light in the dark -- 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