Philip, Thanks for responding. Of course I meant 'Upgrade from Maverick to Natty (problem didn't occur on Maverick)' :) The array in question was created under Maverick ~~ like this: mdadm --create /dev/md20 --level=6 --raid-devices=6 -c 128 -e 1.2 --name=SATAs /dev/sd[cdefgh]
root@ubuntu:~# udevadm info --query=all --name=/dev/sdc P: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host4/target4:0:0/4:0:0:0/block/sdc E: UDEV_LOG=3 E: DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host4/target4:0:0/4:0:0:0/block/sdc E: SUBSYSTEM=block E: MAJOR=8 E: MINOR=32 E: DEVNAME=sdc E: DEVTYPE=disk there are no partitions on the disks. AFAICT, the metadata is native mdadm's: root@ubuntu:~# mdadm --detail /dev/md/SATAs /dev/md/SATAs: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Tue Feb 22 23:50:59 2011 Raid Level : raid6 Array Size : 7814057472 (7452.07 GiB 8001.59 GB) Used Dev Size : 1953514368 (1863.02 GiB 2000.40 GB) Raid Devices : 6 Total Devices : 6 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Fri Mar 25 11:37:24 2011 State : clean Active Devices : 6 Working Devices : 6 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 128K Name : ubuntu:SATAs (local to host ubuntu) UUID : ef584e09:52f1d802:3d7ec530:e2926701 Events : 34 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 32 0 active sync /dev/sdc 1 8 48 1 active sync /dev/sdd 2 8 64 2 active sync /dev/sde 3 8 80 3 active sync /dev/sdf 4 8 96 4 active sync /dev/sdg 5 8 112 5 active sync /dev/sdh root@ubuntu:~# mdadm --examine /dev/sdc /dev/sdc: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : ef584e09:52f1d802:3d7ec530:e2926701 Name : ubuntu:SATAs (local to host ubuntu) Creation Time : Tue Feb 22 23:50:59 2011 Raid Level : raid6 Raid Devices : 6 Avail Dev Size : 3907028896 (1863.02 GiB 2000.40 GB) Array Size : 15628114944 (7452.07 GiB 8001.59 GB) Used Dev Size : 3907028736 (1863.02 GiB 2000.40 GB) Data Offset : 272 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 59f2e93e:39e5e899:5647c5cf:afe86dee Update Time : Fri Mar 25 11:38:46 2011 Checksum : 1f749e5f - correct Events : 34 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 128K Device Role : Active device 0 Array State : AAAAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/742145 Title: ddf1 format should be disabled in dmraid in favor of mdadm -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs