Hello Martin, On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Martin Wilck <mwilck@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 08/23/2013 12:00 PM, Francis Moreau wrote: > >> [ adding Martin in CC since it seems related to DDF... ] > > I reproduced it here. The problem is that mdmon isn't running. Simply > try running "mdmon /dev/md127", and the mount should proceed. > oh, ok, I should have noticed. > You'd avoid the problem by running "mdadm -IR /dev/sda" in the first place. Actually this is how arrays are assembled during boot on some distributions (Fedora for example). They incorporate disks as they're discovered and then they run the array (degraded or not). Therefore booting with a missing disk doesn't work. Thanks -- Francis -- 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