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eponymous
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 11:55 pm    Post subject: Starting up RAID devices ... [!!] Reply with quote

Ok,

So recently I've noticed that when I boot up my Gentoo box I get:

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Starting up RAID devices ... [!!]


I have three 1TB disks all set to "Linux RAID autodetect" with fdisk and I've created a perfectly fine /dev/md0 node for the three disks. The array is RAID-0 and houses and ext4 filesystem and seems to mount fine.

I can't fine any error messages related to RAID but then again I'm not sure what I should be looking for in /var/log/messages :S.

Any ideas?
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 7:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sounds like an init script is trying to assemble an array that was already assembled by the kernel.

I would probably add raid=noautodetect to the kernel line in grub.conf and let the init script hande it.

dmesg might show you more than what you will find in /var/log/messages.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 11:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ok so it looks like a bug has been raised against this:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/295397

The script in question is: /lib/rcscripts/addons/raid-start.sh :

Code:
.....
.....
if [ -x /sbin/mdadm ] ; then
                ebegin "Starting up RAID devices"
                create_devs ${devs}
                output=$(mdadm -As 2>&1)
                ret=$?
                [ ${ret} -ne 0 ] && echo "${output}"
                eend ${ret}
fi

.....
.....


There is no message printed after the "Starting up RAID devices ..." message at boot but there is a blank line. Doing a mdadm -As manually on my system returns nothing - no error, it just returns. So it looks like a problem with the return value.

I do not need the RAID partitions to be autodetected or anything like that since it has all been done manually and an /etc/mdadm.conf exists.

I also have mdadm added to my boot run level so I'm not sure why this script above even exists :S

Needless to say grep of "RAID" in /var/log yields nothing.


This script seems redundant for my uses - any way to remove it from the boot sequence?
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 5:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

raid=noautodetect

added to the kernel line of grub.conf didn't work by the way.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 7:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Any other ideas?
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