From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Simon Matthews Subject: Re: One raid array does not show up with mdadm --examine --scan Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:24:47 -0700 Message-ID: <40b437201003201724m7fd4883cg3f7bbedb281a891b@mail.gmail.com> References: <40b437201003151113i15ad2a57y3b4f3ac4e18a8ad6@mail.gmail.com> <40b437201003151441t1f2b78cfg901ccae97c893456@mail.gmail.com> <4BA4F486.4020209@tmr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4BA4F486.4020209@tmr.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Bill Davidsen Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Simon Matthews wrote: >> >> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Simon Matthews >> wrote: >> >>> >>> On my newly built machine, in which all filesystems are on RAID array, >>> one of the arrays does not show up with the command: >>> mdadm --examine --scan >>> >>> Why is this? And is there anything I can do to fix it? >>> >> >> >> I suspect that I may have found an answer to this question -- the >> array that does not show up is formed from partitions that are logical >> partitions instead of primary partitions. I'll try deleting the >> partitions and re-creating as primary. >> >> > > That's not it, I just checked and mine show up just fine, even with an old > kernel and mdadm. I have destroyed and re-created the arrays and the problem has gone away. Simon