hello  ,

i m using mdadm - v2.6.7.1 .  when I m creating a raid array of 4 disk
using command

mdadm --create --chunk=64 --level=0 --raid-devices=4 /dev/md99
/dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd


in dev directory of my PC I m getting md99 device and along with this
md_d99 . So I m not able understand what is this md_d99 ? this thing
was not happening previously in previous versions of mdadm .


another issue if i reboot the PC also it shd keep active the md99
array , but it is not happening . in cat /proc/mdstat only I can found
md_d99 .

I created a array with the following command
mdadm --create --chunk=64 --level=0 --raid-devices=4 /dev/md99
/dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd

before reboot the system in cat /proc/mdstat I used to get md99 but
after reboot following things are coming ~~~~~~~~


cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5]
[raid4] [raid10]
md_d99 : inactive sdb[0](S)
      15646592 blocks

unused devices: <none>



cat /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31.9-scst
root=UUID=778e7d82-4733-4de5-977b-268cdba8bdda ro



root@dmachine:~# cat /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf
# 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

# This file was auto-generated on Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:47:50 -0500
# by mkconf $Id$
ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2
UUID=602a804e:91caebca:9492a6f6:c7fe0f79
ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid1 num-devices=2
UUID=09d42156:0a8b8429:9492a6f6:c7fe0f79


regds

Anshuman







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On Tue, 11 May 2010 12:07:08 +0530

Does this extra "md_d99" appear when you create the array, or only when you
assemble it, or only after reboot?

What does
  ls -l /dev/md* 

This sounds like the array is being assembled by udev issuing
   mdadm -I devname
commands, the somehow "mdadm -I" is getting confused about whether to create
a partitioned array or not (/dev/md99 cannot have partitions, /dev/md_d99
can).

Maybe try:

 mdadm -Ss
 mdadm -Ivv /dev/sda
 mdadm -Ivv /dev/sdb
 mdadm -Ivv /dev/sdc
 mdadm -Ivv /dev/sdd
 cat /proc/mdstat
then report the output of all of that.

All the config files you listed look OK.


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