On 08/24/2013 02:42 PM, Francis Moreau wrote: > On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Francis Moreau <francis.moro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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). > > I meant the sequence: > > mdadm -I /dev/sda > mdadm -I /dev/sdb > mdadm -R /dev/mdxxx > > is used by distribution. CentOS 6 uses the following sequence: mdadm -I /dev/sda mdadm -I /dev/sdb mdadm -I /dev/mdXXX I don't see mdadm -R anywhere on CentOS. You could change your udev rules to run "mdadm -IR /dev/mdXXX" instead. Have you tried that? I wonder if that woudn't be smarter anyway. Neil? Martin -- 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