Re: RAID 5 array with journal device does not automatically assemble at boot

2017-11-09 Thread Tobx
On 8. Nov 2017, at 21:58, deloptes wrote: > > Tobx wrote: > >> VERBOSE=false > > perhaps set to true and see what it says. The comment to this option states: # if this variable is set to true, mdadm will be a little more verbose e.g. # when creating the initramfs. I tried that, but I did

Re: RAID 5 array with journal device does not automatically assemble at boot

2017-11-08 Thread deloptes
Tobx wrote: > RAID assembling at boot only works when no journal device is involved. > I can't help much here, nothing to compare. I forgot to mention that md driver is compiled in the kernel in my case. > VERBOSE=false perhaps set to true and see what it says. > > Options in /etc/mdadm/mdad

Re: RAID 5 array with journal device does not automatically assemble at boot

2017-11-08 Thread Tobx
I was on 4.9.0-4 (Stretch), now tried with 4.13.0-0 but had no luck. I also tried it again on a clean Ubuntu-Server 17.10 with Kernel 4.13.0-16 and had exactly the same issue: RAID assembling at boot only works when no journal device is involved. > On 7. Nov 2017, at 20:04, deloptes wrote: >

Re: RAID 5 array with journal device does not automatically assemble at boot

2017-11-07 Thread deloptes
Tobx wrote: > What am I missing? I don't know if it is related and I don't use raid5, but rather raid1, and in the past year or so I had experienced similar with our server. Now I run 4.12.10 and noticed in the changelog/release notes that there are a lot of fixes in the md stack. The issues are

RAID 5 array with journal device does not automatically assemble at boot

2017-11-07 Thread Tobx
Hello, I try to get a RAID 5 array to assemble at boot with mdadm: # mdadm --create /dev/md/test --level=5 --raid-devices=3 --write-journal=/dev/sde1 /dev/sd[bcd]1 mdadm: Defaulting to version 1.2 metadata mdadm: array /dev/md/test started. # /usr/share/mdadm/mkconf > /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf # upd