I hit this when running test suite that is using Linux MD over loop devices. Sporadically it fails to mount raid after mdadm --assembly with mdadm: array /dev/md/mdraid10_raid1_6 started. mdadm: stopped /dev/md/mdraid10_raid1_6 mdadm: /dev/md/mdraid10_raid1_6 has been started with 6 drives. mount: special device /dev/md/mdraid10_raid1_6 does not exist How naive is the assumption that when "mdadm --assemble" returns devices are available? Should every use of mdadm be now followed by waiting for device? Code is simply xmdraid*) mdadm --assemble /dev/md/"${fs}_$NDEVICES" "${LODEVICES[@]}" sleep 1 mount -t "$MOUNTFS" "${MOUNTDEVICE}" "$MNTPOINTRO" -o ${MOUNTOPTS}${SELINUXOPTS}ro ;; but apparently even one second wait is not enough. But where is the limit? Of course when you look after test failure all devices are there. Using mdadm 3.3.1 on openSUSE 13.2. -- 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