On Wed, 2013-12-11 at 14:19 +0100, John Hughes wrote: > When the system works it builds the devices from sda and sdb. > > When it fails its because it tries to build a container from sda3 and sdb. > > To mdadm sda3 looks like it is part of an imsm container, but it's not. > It isn't even a partition! sda and sdb contain a imsm raid0 device that > is partitioned. Since "sda3" extends beyond the end of sda it gets > truncated by the kernel, and if mdadm examines it it looks like it is > part of the imsm device. > > My problem can be "fixed" by adding : > > DEVICE /dev/sda /dev/sdb containers > > to the mdadm.conf (and rebuilding the initramfs).
But this can go wrong if you have another device plugged in at boot time and the device names change... > I guess the bug report should be reassigned to mdadm. Right, I don't think it is correct to look for firmware RAID signatures inside partitions. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Knowledge is power. France is bacon.
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