Hi, I'm attempting to use md-cluster from Linux 4.5.2 with mdadm 3.4 and I'm running into this when attempting to create a RAID1 device with the clustered bitmap: --snip-- [64782.619968] md: bind<dm-4> [64782.629336] md: bind<dm-3> [64782.630008] md/raid1:md127: active with 2 out of 2 mirrors [64782.630528] md-cluster module not found. [64782.630530] md127: Could not setup cluster service (-2) [64782.630531] md127: bitmap file superblock: [64782.630532] magic: 6d746962 [64782.630533] version: 5 [64782.630534] uuid: 10fee18f.f553d7f2.deb926f1.c7c4bd4b [64782.630534] events: 0 [64782.630535] events cleared: 0 [64782.630536] state: 00000000 [64782.630537] chunksize: 67108864 B [64782.630537] daemon sleep: 5s [64782.630538] sync size: 878956288 KB [64782.630539] max write behind: 0 [64782.630541] md127: failed to create bitmap (-2) [64782.630577] md: md127 stopped. [64782.630581] md: unbind<dm-3> [64782.635133] md: export_rdev(dm-3) [64782.635145] md: unbind<dm-4> [64782.643111] md: export_rdev(dm-4) --snip-- I'm using md-cluster built-in, not as a module: # zcat /proc/config.gz | grep MD_CLUSTER CONFIG_MD_CLUSTER=y It seems the driver is attempting to load the 'md-cluster' module (from drivers/md/md.c): --snip-- err = request_module("md-cluster"); if (err) { pr_err("md-cluster module not found.\n"); return -ENOENT; } --snip-- I looked at linux-next and it appears this code is the same; is there a test we can do before attempting to load the module in the case that its built-in, or is there some other requirement that md-cluster needs to be built as a module? Thanks for your time. --Marc -- 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