Dear Sean, In message <CAA43vkW82nJXmwo7=HAhO+shx_Obak_tm7Vy0EKWW+HWW6brnw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote: > > As it is now, we just populate /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf ARRAY lines with > the output of mdadm --examine --scan after building all the RAID 6 > strings and the top level RAID 0 container. This gives the result > where the RAID 0 containers are the last lines in the file, after all > the RAID 6 strings. For example, on a machine with RAID 6 strings > md0...4 and RAID 0 string md5 (containing md0...md4), we have > mdadm.conf contents like: Just in case it is not clear (you didn't mention you did): after generating /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf you _must_ also rebuild the initramfs image for your running kernel, so the new mdadm.conf gets included there, where it is actually needed. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@xxxxxxx I don't know if it's what you want, but it's what you get. :-) - Larry Wall in <10502@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- 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