On Thursday March 23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > This question is mainly about the following error during shutdown on my > gentoo system: > > mdadm: fail to stop array /dev/md1: Device or resource busy > > (full raid1, root is on /dev/md1) > > After searching bugzilla I found: > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119380 > > However there's no agreement on if / how mdadm should stop the rootfs > during a shutdown sequence. Can anyone enlight me on a good way to > proceed in this ?
There is no need to stop the root md, or in fact any md, at shutdown. The shutdown process in the kernel will switch any active md arrays to read-only, which is effectively the same as shutting them down. It doesn't hurt to do mdadm -Ss but it isn't really needed and you can ignore any errors. NeilBrown > > Regards, > > -- Frido Ferdinand > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
