From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Phil Turmel Subject: Re: Linux software RAID assistance Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 13:23:27 -0500 Message-ID: <4D63FF1F.4030201@turmel.org> References: <4D540F6C.6050904@gmail.com> <4D5C2143.3000907@turmel.org> <4D5C2260.3020800@gmail.com> <4D5C273E.7020609@turmel.org> <4D5C4176.80604@gmail.com> <4D5C4204.5020106@turmel.org> <1377706586882297883@unknownmsgid> <4D5C6016.6060809@turmel.org> <4D5D2723.1010101@turmel.org> <6037962689649361915@unknownmsgid> <4D5D52AE.8070602@turmel.org> <4D5FE208.5020700@turmel.org> <4D5FED98.6060407@turmel.org> <4D61707D.4040304@turmel.org> <4D61A64B.6090708@turmel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Simon Mcnair Cc: NeilBrown , "linux-raid@vger.kernel.org" List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 02/22/2011 12:14 PM, Simon Mcnair wrote: > was this anything to do with the dist-upgrade that I performed ? > > mdadm has upgraded again to > proxmox:~# mdadm -V > mdadm - v3.1.4 - 31st August 2010 No, but you probably can't do any more "--create --assume-clean" operations with that array. As for the assembly errors, its probably an out-of-date mdadm.conf. My server's looks like this: > DEVICE /dev/sd[a-z][1-9] > > ARRAY /dev/md23 UUID=c3cbe096:fc43d939:8aa66230:708c5670 > ARRAY /dev/md22 UUID=1438a239:aa03c3f9:68e051d7:b59a6219 > ARRAY /dev/md21 UUID=4b47d0f6:16f0e352:c67a2185:feb0b573 > ARRAY /dev/md20 UUID=7676c77e:6ae70f65:30a170a2:b1a1b242 Yours probably needs to be updated with the new md0 uuid. Its not your boot drive, so your initramfs shouldn't matter. Phil