Re: RAID 5 array with journal device does not automatically assemble at boot

On 8. Nov 2017, at 21:58, deloptes wrote: > > Tobx wrote: > >> VERBOSE=false > > perhaps set to true and see what it says. The comment to this option states: # if this variable is set to true, mdadm will be a little more verbose e.g. # when creating the initramfs.

Re: Talking about RAID - disks with same id

On 8. Nov 2017, at 22:40, deloptes wrote: > How is this possible and how to solve it - I would simply add 3rd 500MB disk > to the raid and remove one of the others, but still what is the impact of > this (stupid) coincidence … I would not call it coincidence, what are the odds? There must be a r

Re: RAID 5 array with journal device does not automatically assemble at boot

I was on 4.9.0-4 (Stretch), now tried with 4.13.0-0 but had no luck. I also tried it again on a clean Ubuntu-Server 17.10 with Kernel 4.13.0-16 and had exactly the same issue: RAID assembling at boot only works when no journal device is involved. > On 7. Nov 2017, at 20:04, deloptes wrote: >

RAID 5 array with journal device does not automatically assemble at boot

Hello, I try to get a RAID 5 array to assemble at boot with mdadm: # mdadm --create /dev/md/test --level=5 --raid-devices=3 --write-journal=/dev/sde1 /dev/sd[bcd]1 mdadm: Defaulting to version 1.2 metadata mdadm: array /dev/md/test started. # /usr/share/mdadm/mkconf > /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf # upd