Public bug reported:
Since Feisty when I implemented this raid configuration mdadm does not
always boot correctly even though it seems setup perfectly. I just did a
format and install of fresh Gutsy and it still is doing it. Right during
early boot the status bar will start to load and gets about 1/5th of the
way and locks (disk activity light on solid/high I/O). I can goto a
console, and I know at this time todo ctrl/alt/del to have it reboot or
else it will eventually fail out. Eventually my system will boot.
Once I was able to get a terminal: ps aux | grep mdadm
root 4508 0.0 0.0 10360 608 ? S< 00:49 0:00
/lib/udev/watershed /sbin/mdadm --assemble --scan --no-degraded
root 4509 0.0 0.0 10364 580 ? S< 00:49 0:00
/lib/udev/watershed /sbin/mdadm --assemble --scan --no-degraded
root 8436 0.0 0.0 12392 528 ? Ss 00:54 0:00 /sbin/mdadm
--monitor --pid-file /var/run/mdadm/monitor.pid --daemonise --scan --syslog
root 8892 34.1 26.6 562048 550600 ? D< 00:56 0:34 /sbin/mdadm
--assemble --scan --no-degraded
chris 8951 0.0 0.0 5124 836 pts/2 S+ 00:57 0:00 grep mdadm
Notice, the last mdadm process kicked off during boot is using 27% of my
memory and creeping up fast, in a matter of a minute all my ram is gone
(2GB) and it hits swap until it consumes it all and the system becomes
unusable. This occurs half the time I start my computer and the drives
are always detected during POST. I even can killall the mdmadm processes
and they reappear with the same behavior. I feel it is some kind of race
condition with udev/mount/mdadm placing my drives in a state that will
not work. I even tried adding the udevsettle timeout in the init but it
didnt help.
I either ran mdadm --assemble --scan manually or checked dmesg and it would
flood with this:
md: array md0 already has disks!
Until recently the --no-degraded option was not on by default and I'd
always seem to loose a drive during boot if I restarted during the mount
attempt by using ctrl alt del. I would have to re add it.
Setup:
Latest Gutsy Ubuntu
AMD Opteron 170 (X2)
/dev/md0:
4x300GB drives
/dev/md1:
5x500GB drives
md0 : active raid5 sde[0] hdd[3] hdb[2] sdf[1]
879171840 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] [UUUU]
md1 : active raid5 sdh1[0] sdd1[4] sdc1[3] sdb1[2] sda1[1]
1953535744 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/5] [UUUUU]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ 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
#ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid0 num-devices=2
UUID=db874dd1:759d986d:cc05af5c:cfa1abed
ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid5 num-devices=5
UUID=9c2534ac:1de3420b:e368bf24:bd0fce41
ARRAY /dev/md2 level=raid0 num-devices=2
UUID=0cc8706d:e9eedd66:33a70373:7f0eea01
ARRAY /dev/md3 level=raid0 num-devices=2
UUID=af45c1d8:338c6b67:e4ad6b92:34a89b78
# This file was auto-generated on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:58:28 -0700
# by mkconf $Id: mkconf 261 2006-11-09 13:32:35Z madduck $
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Boot with Software Raid most times causes mdadm to not complete (possible race)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/140854
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