Re: RAID1 arrays not starting when drive is missing

[Rich <rlcarr@gmail.com>]

On Nov 23, 5:10 am, martin f krafft <madd...@debian.org> wrote:
> also sprach Rich <rlc...@gmail.com> [2007.11.22.1345 +0000]:
>
> > I have two RAID1 devices -- /dev/md0 which is /boot (and
> > does NOT use LVM) and is made up of /dev/sda2 and /dev/sdb2,
> > and /dev/md1 which has LVM (and the rest of the system) over it
> > and is made up of /dev/sda3 and /dev/sdb3.
>
> Please show your mdadm.conf file.

Here it is:

# mdadm.conf
#
# Please refer to mdadm.conf(5) for information about this file.
#

# by default, scan all partitions (/proc/partitions) for MD
superblocks.
# alternatively, specify devices to scan, using wildcards if desired.
DEVICE partitions

# auto-create devices with Debian standard permissions
CREATE owner=root group=disk mode=0660 auto=yes

# automatically tag new arrays as belonging to the local system
HOMEHOST <system>

# instruct the monitoring daemon where to send mail alerts
MAILADDR root

# definitions of existing MD arrays
ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2
UUID=8c7280d3:5b4c9cd9:541ba3e9:02d46f81
ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=bc6c4e8c:
7310603a:e1e7e1f0:3c1631ca

# This file was auto-generated on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:37:57 +0000
# by mkconf $Id: mkconf 324 2007-05-05 18:49:44Z madduck $

--
Rich Carreiro