Re: Borked MD RAID...

["Lonni J Friedman" <netllama gmail com>]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Eitan Tsur <eitan tsur gmail com> wrote:
> I just recently installed a 3-disk RAID5 array in a server of mine, running
> FC9. Upon reboot, one of the drives drops out, and is allocated as a spare.
> I suspect there is some sort of issue where DBUS re-arranges the
> drive-to-device maps between boots, but I am not sure... Just kind of
> annoying to have to stop and re-add a drive every boot, and wait the couple
> hours for the array to rebuild the 3rd disk. Any thoughts? Anyone else
> encountered such an issue before? What should I be looking for? I'm new to
> the world of RAID, so any information you can give may be helpful.

What's in /etc/mdadm.conf, /proc/mdstat and dmesg when this fails ?


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