On 10/19/2017 02:17 PM, NeilBrown wrote: > Anything is better than nothing.. Can we get a photo of "mdadm > --examine" output on one of the devices (e.g. /dev/sda1) ?? > > Also, what mdadm version (mdadm -V) and kernel version (uname -r)? https://imgur.com/x2rZEl5 I included an --examine of sda1 and sdf. > mdadm never tries to edit mdadm.conf. > It does modify files in /run/mdadm (or maybe /var/run/mdadm). > Can we get a photo of that audit log? I was mistaken, I think. It looks like mdadm tried to read (??) the file and the context for the file was not set properly: https://imgur.com/5UvFExp In order to "fix" the issue, I ran sealert against the audit.log and followed it's instructions, producing a rules file. > > I'm very suspicious of these new drives appearing to have not metadata. > Can you > od -x /dev/sdf | head > od -x /dev/sdf | grep a92b > and provide a photo of the output? grep'ing a92b scrolled off the screen, so I grabbed a portion of it, ctrl-c' and included head: https://imgur.com/WDcAYBc Thanks for the help so far. -- 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