Hello, On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 06:20:56PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > I've found many other people complaining about similar issues when using > whole disks to create mdadm RAID arrays. Some of these complaints go back > many years, so this isn't new.
Any time I've seen this problem pursued (as opposed to throwing up hands and just using partitions) it was found to be the motherboard (well, the UEFI bit) deciding that a storage device with no GPT or MBR needs an empty GPT adding to it. This corrupts md arrays on whole devices. Example: http://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=10174&title=asrock-motherboard-destroys-linux-software-raid Is it possible that this is happening to you? If not, once again I urge you to go on over to linux-raid list and describe what's happening. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
