From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Greaves Subject: Re: Raid array is not automatically detected. Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:46:53 +0100 Message-ID: <469E35ED.3040500@dgreaves.com> References: <4697E231.3070906@hp.com> <4698D4FC.2060100@tmr.com> <469B7E75.3030907@hp.com> <469B8D05.1080003@dgreaves.com> <469E2626.30204@hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <469E2626.30204@hp.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Bryan Christ Cc: Justin Piszcz , Bill Davidsen , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Bryan Christ wrote: > I'm now very confused... It's all that top-posting... > When I run mdadm --examine /dev/md0 I get the error message: No > superblock detected on /dev/md0 > > However, when I run mdadm -D /dev/md0 the report clearly states > "Superblock is persistent" > David Greaves wrote: >> * are the superblocks version 0.9? (mdadm --examine /dev/component) See where it says 'component' ? :) I wish mdadm --detail and --examine were just aliases and the output varied according to whether you looked at a component (eg /dev/sda1) or an md device (/dev/md0) I get that wrong *all* the time... David