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Re: 20 drive raid-10, CentOS5.5, after reboot assemble fails - all drives "non-fresh"

From: Jeff Johnson <hidden>
Date: 2011-08-08 05:55:21

Joe / et-al,

The '--assemble --update=uuid' appears to have done the trick. It is 
weird because the uuid in the config file matched the uuid of the raid 
volume shown with 'mdadm -D /dev/md3' and the uuid on each of the drives 
shown with 'mdadm -E /dev/sdc1'

The '--update=summaries' did not work. Assigning a new random uuid 
appears to have repaired whatever bit in the superblock was mucked up.

Strange...

Joe, thanks for your help. Find me at SC11, I'm buying you beers.

--Jeff



On 8/7/11 10:04 PM, Joe Landman wrote:
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Maybe '--update=uuid' ??

It looks like it correctly finds /dev/sd[c-z]1 as elements of /dev/md3

Which mdadm are you using?

    mdadm -V

and which kernel?

Try the UUID update, and let us know if it helps.  Also if your mdadm 
is old (2.6.x), try updating to 3.1.x.

FWIW: we've found problems in the past with Centos 5.4 to 5.5 kernels 
with MD arrays.  Often times our only real solution would be to update 
the full OS on the boot drives.  This is for distro specific kernels. 
For our kernels, we don't run into this issue.

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