On 12/09/2013 01:40 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: >> But yes, it doesn't hurt to add it to a wiki page somewhere. > > I added this text to the wiki: > > "There are bugs in older versions of mdadm, and a lot of "stable" operating > system releases ship with really old mdadm versions. Recent versions are 3.2.x > and 3.3.x. It's advisable if you run into problems assembling your raid to > upgrade to the latest git version of mdadm. If you can get the raid to > successfully assemble and recover with the git version, then it's fine to use > your old mdadm version again for normal system operation. Newer mdadm doesn't > make any changes to the array that isn't backwards compatible." That ought to help the dummies out... As follow-up and confirmation of the help statement. I can confirm that after repairing my arrays under mdadm 3.3.2, I was able to reboot and have the arrays assemble and run with mdadm 2.6.4 without any issue. (good thing since the problem was on the / partitions...) Now I just have to back-port mdadm-master to build and run on openSuSE 11.0 when the closest thing I can find is an 11.1 src.rpm. (should be close enough) Thank you again Neil and Mikael for all the help. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- 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
