On Monday 25 August 2014 10:22:31 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 24 August 2014 19:22:40 Kerin Millar wrote: > > On 24/08/2014 14:51, Peter Humphrey wrote: > --->8 > > > > So I decided to clean up /etc/mdadm.conf by adding these lines: > > > > > > DEVICE /dev/sda* /dev/sdb* > > > ARRAY /dev/md5 devices=/dev/sda5,/dev/sdb5 > > > ARRAY /dev/md7 devices=/dev/sda7,/dev/sdb7 > > > ARRAY /dev/md9 devices=/dev/sda9,/dev/sdb9 > > > > Perhaps you should not include /dev/md5 here. > > I wondered about that. > > > As you have made a point of building the array containing the root > > filesystem with 0.99 metadata, ... > > ...as was instructed in the howto at the time... > > > I would assume that it is being assembled in kernelspace as a result of > > CONFIG_MD_AUTODETECT being enabled. > > Yes, I think that's what's happening. > > > Alternatively, perhaps you are using an initramfs. > > Nope. > > > Either way, by the time the mdraid init.d script executes, the /dev/md5 > > array must - by definition - be up and mounted. Does it make a > > difference if you add the following line to the config? > > > > AUTO +1.x homehost -all > > > > That will prevent it from considering arrays with 0.99 metadata. > > No, I get the same result. Just a red asterisk at the left end of the line > after "Starting up RAID devices..." > > Now that I look at /etc/init.d/mdraid I see a few things that aren't quite > kosher. The first is that it runs "mdadm -As 2>&1", which returns null after > booting is finished (whence the empty line before the asterisk). Then it > tests for the existence of /dev/md_d*. That also doesn't exist, though > /dev/md* does: > > # ls -l /dev/md* > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 0 Aug 25 10:03 /dev/md0 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 5 Aug 25 10:03 /dev/md5 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 7 Aug 25 10:03 /dev/md7 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 9 Aug 25 10:03 /dev/md9 > > /dev/md: > total 0 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Aug 25 10:03 5_0 -> ../md5 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Aug 25 10:03 7_0 -> ../md7 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Aug 25 10:03 9_0 -> ../md9 > > Looks like I have some experimenting to do.
Well, it was simple. I just said "rc-update del mdraid boot" and all is now well. I'd better revisit the docs to see if they still give the same advice. -- Regards Peter
