On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 02:56:47AM +1100, Joel Sing wrote: > While stacked softraid volumes generally work, they are not officially > supported (for a variety of reasons). The problem that you mention above is > due to the way that softraid volumes are shutdown - the shutdown order is > approximately the same as the order they are created. In your case this means > that sd3 gets shutdown before sd4, hence sd4 is unable to write metadata to > sd3. For the time being, in order to avoid the issue you should disassemble > the CRYPTO volume (sd4) before the RAID 1 volume (sd3).
Would stackable softraid volumes work in near future or is it big problem as how softraid was designed? jirib
