Re: Mdadm not starting at boot

you know I had/have the same problem ...

I finally broke down and wrote my own init script that I run in
runlevels 2-5 that basically has

mdadm -A -s
vgscan
vgchange -A y

And then my mounts in it ... I run it as an S19 so it starts right
before Samba and NFS which are what my raid array exports.

As for the bad superblock, it could be a hardware problem, or it could
be the power issues you've had ... if it persists even with clean
shutdowns, I'd start looking at the hardware. Hope that helps.

H

On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 02:42:55AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> I have two systems, both freshly installed Sarge systems, both with a RAID 5
> array (3 drives plus a spare each). One is working perfectly. The other has
> a problem whenever it boots (and I've had a number of power failures lately).
> When the system boots, the RAID is not started. I have to run mdrun to start
> the RAID. Once it's started, when I try mounting it, I always get a message
> that it has a bad superblock. I have to run fsck, which fixes it, and then I
> can mount it and it works fine.
>
> I tried dpkg-reconfigure and specifically told it to start on boot and to
> start the monitor on boot, but that hasn't helped. This array, when running,
> is a 290GB RAID, so it takes a long time to fsck and it currently holds 115GB
> of data.
>
> So why won't this RAID restart on boot when the other does?
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Hal
>
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