On 09/26/2014 02:21 PM, Francis Moreau wrote:
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mdadm --stop --scan <<<

[   89.975162] md_open(): md125 opened by mdadm [930]
[   89.975305] md_release(): md125 released by mdadm [930]
[   89.977434] md_open(): md125 opened by mdadm [932]
[   89.978813] md_open(): md125 opened by mdadm [930]
[   89.979365] md_release(): md125 released by mdadm [932]
[   89.979693] md_open(): md125 opened by systemd-udevd [931]
[   89.985790] md_release(): md125 released by systemd-udevd [931]
[   90.179911] md_release(): md125 released by mdadm [930]
[   90.180168] md_open(): md127 opened by mdadm [459]
[   90.180187] md_release(): md127 released by mdadm [459]
[   90.180199] md_open(): md126 opened by mdadm [459]
[   90.180205] md_release(): md126 released by mdadm [459]
[   90.180556] md_open(): md126 opened by mdadm [930]
[   90.180653] md_release(): md126 released by mdadm [930]
[   90.180690] md_open(): md126 opened by mdadm [930]
[   90.180758] md_open(): mdX opened by mdadm [459]

What is this 'mdX' device that mdadm operates on ?

It also doesn't have a counterpart release() call.

[   90.180995] md_open(): md125 opened by mdadm [459]
[   90.181056] md_release(): md125 released by mdadm [459]
[   90.182717] md_open(): md127 opened by mdadm [459]
[   90.182725] md_release(): md127 released by mdadm [459]
[   90.182732] md_open(): md126 opened by mdadm [459]
[   90.182761] md_release(): md126 released by mdadm [459]
[   90.182770] md_open(): md125 opened by mdadm [459]
[   90.182775] md_release(): md125 released by mdadm [459]
[   90.182940] md_release(): md126 released by mdadm [930]
[   90.183167] md_open(): md127 opened by mdadm [930]
[   90.183257] md_release(): md127 released by mdadm [930]
[   90.183288] md_open(): md127 opened by mdadm [930]
[   90.183461] md_open(): md127 opened by mdadm [459]
[   90.183488] md_release(): md127 released by mdadm [459]
[   90.183499] md_open(): md125 opened by mdadm [459]
[   90.183505] md_release(): md125 released by mdadm [459]
[   90.183686] md_release(): md127 released by mdadm [930]

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Probably there is a 'change' event happening just before the 'remove' event,
and udev runs "mdadm" on the 'change' event, and that ends up happening after
the device has been removed.

Is this really a problem?  Can't you just ignore it and pretend it isn't
there?

Well, if you list the block devices that the kernel detected in order to
operate on them, it could. I don't know exactly what would be the result
to use it but it could confuse some tools.

Is there a way to check that the 'ghost' device has been removed by
poking sysfs ?

Thanks