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From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: How to recreate a dmraid RAID array with mdadm (was: no
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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:53:37 +1100
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On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:39:39 +0000
John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk> wrote:

> On 17/11/2010 01:26, Neil Brown wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:02:17 -0500
> > Mike Viau<viaum@sheridanc.on.ca>  wrote:
> [...]
> >> DEVICE partitions
> >> HOMEHOST<system>
> >> ARRAY metadata=imsm UUID=084b969a:0808f5b8:6c784fb7:62659383
> >> ARRAY /dev/md/OneTB-RAID1-PV container=084b969a:0808f5b8:6c784fb7:62659383 member=0 UUID=ae4a1598:72267ed7:3b34867b:9c56497a
> [...]
> > I would really expect that mdadm.conf file to successfully assemble the
> > RAID1.
> 
> The only thing that strikes me is that "DEVICE partitions" line - surely 
> imsm containers don't live in partitions?

No, they don't.

But "DEVICE partitions" actually means "any devices listed
in /proc/partitions", and that includes whole devices.
:-(

NeilBrown


> 
> Cheers,
> 
> John.