From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "michael" Subject: Re: Updated MDADM, array dies. Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:16:09 -0800 Message-ID: <20081126211439.M92990@estone.ca> References: <29a863790811260840w2533f6dcy244ce58d81bbc27e@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <29a863790811260840w2533f6dcy244ce58d81bbc27e@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:40:52 -0500, Greg Cormier wrote > I have a RAID5 array of 4 disks. Was working well. I did a "yum > update" and noticed it updated mdadm to mdadm 2.6.7.1, amongst other > things (new kernel 2.2.27 instead of .26) , and now my array won't > mount. > > mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1 > mdadm: cannot open device /dev/sdb1: Device or resource busy > mdadm: /dev/sdb1 has no superblock - assembly aborted > > [root@zeus ~]# cat /proc/mdstat > Personalities : > md_d0 : inactive sdb1[0](S) sdd1[2](S) > 976766976 blocks > > unused devices: > Did your md devices get renamed? You are trying to assemble md0 but yet proc/mdstat shows md_d0 as the device name.