On Fri, 8 Nov 2013 14:33:24 +0000 "Dorau, Lukasz" <lukasz.dorau@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Friday, November 08, 2013 2:46 PM Francis Moreau <francis.moro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > If you created a RAID array with mdadm, it would work correctly - recovery would > > > start. > > > > Nope, I've got an identical behaviour if the array is created by mdadm (v3.3). > > > > I have checked it twice with Fedora 19 and mdadm v3.3 and it works. > What OS are you running? > > > As you can see, I'm confused about ISW vs IMSM. > > > > Are those 2 formats the same thing ? > > > > ISW is a name of Intel metadata used by dmraid and IMSM is a name of Intel metadata used by mdadm, but ISW in dmraid has not been supported and developed for a couple of years, so ISW might be called an old version of IMSM. > > Lukasz Unless we identify something in the metadata the dmraid writes which clearly contravene the specification, we must assume there is a bug in mdadm. I haven't had a change to look at this properly yet but I hope to next week. NeilBrown
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