Re: Squeeze assembles one RAID array, at boot but not the other
On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 03:40:07 -0500, Tom H wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 3:19 AM, Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
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>>> Any ideas where to look? Or how to work around the problem?
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>> Is the new array listed in mdadm.conf?
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>> Did you rebuild your initramfs?
No, and no, and that's probably the problem.
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> Was the new gpt array built on the box where it isn't mounting?
Yes.
> If
> not, you have to mount it whilst updating the hostname in the metadata
> (I've forgotten the exact mdadm command). If the metadata doesn't have
> the correct hostname, the "homehost", it either doesn't assemble and
> mount the array or assembles and mounts it but starts the array
> numbering at the other end of the spectrum, "md127" for the first
> "foreign" array, "md126" for the second, etc.
Interesting. Presumably to avoid the problem of moving hard drives
with fragments of RAIDs from screwing up.
-- hendrik
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