On 17/11/2010 01:26, Neil Brown wrote:

On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:02:17 -0500
Mike Viau[off-list ref]  wrote:

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DEVICE partitions
HOMEHOST<system>
ARRAY metadata=imsm UUID=084b969a:0808f5b8:6c784fb7:62659383
ARRAY /dev/md/OneTB-RAID1-PV container=084b969a:0808f5b8:6c784fb7:62659383 member=0 UUID=ae4a1598:72267ed7:3b34867b:9c56497a

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I would really expect that mdadm.conf file to successfully assemble the
RAID1.

The only thing that strikes me is that "DEVICE partitions" line - surely 
imsm containers don't live in partitions?

Cheers,

John.