Hi all I have encountered so many times, the raid device is created successfully, but the directory /dev/md0 can't be created. It can't reproduce 100%. [root@intel-sugarbay-do-01 create_assemble]# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] md0 : active raid10 loop7[7](S) loop6[6] loop5[5] loop4[4] loop3[3] loop2[2] loop1[1] loop0[0] 1788416 blocks super 1.2 512K chunks 2 near-copies [7/7] [UUUUUUU] bitmap: 0/1 pages [0KB], 65536KB chunk unused devices: <none> [root@intel-sugarbay-do-01 create_assemble]# ls /dev/md0 ls: cannot access /dev/md0: No such file or directory The underline devices are loop devices which are created with big file. The kernel I used is RHEL7 (3.10.0-234.el7.x86_64.debug, mdadm - v3.3.2 - 21st August 2014) I'll try to reproduce this with upstream kernel and mdadm. But I think it shouldn't be the problem about kernel. What do you think I should check for this? And which tool is responsible for creating the directory? Maybe I can add some log to it to find the reason. Best Regards Xiao -- 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