From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Landman Subject: Re: Ok, dumb question time ... Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:07:55 -0400 Message-ID: <4CAF5DFB.2050200@scalableinformatics.com> References: <4CAE9C13.3060002@scalableinformatics.com> Reply-To: landman@scalableinformatics.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: CoolCold Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 10/08/2010 02:01 PM, CoolCold wrote: >> It doesn't. The array is marked as being in the "clean, degraded" state. >> Which, as it is the root file system array, has the unfortunate side effect >> of not allowing the RAID1 to properly assemble at boot (that degraded >> state). > Am I understanding right, you can't boot because that md array isn't > assembled at all or just assembled but degraded? > If first, are you happy Ubuntu user? Its not assembling due to the "degraded" state. This is on Centos 5.5 using our kernel bits (never had a problem with this before). We've gotten past that issue and are now onto the next one for them (many thanks to Neil for the solution) The customer in question may have modified their configs, and we are trying to walk their changes back to the point where it stopped working. Thanks Joe -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics Inc. email: landman@scalableinformatics.com web : http://scalableinformatics.com http://scalableinformatics.com/jackrabbit phone: +1 734 786 8423 x121 fax : +1 866 888 3112 cell : +1 734 612 4615