Having a look on the source, I'm confirmed, that the assembling problem
is related to the change indicated as:
0cc3a8b md: Fix handling for devices from 2TB to 4TB in 0.90
metadata.
resp. to the following lines in drivers/md/md.c (Line 850ff):
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850 rdev->sectors = rdev->sb_start;
851 /* Limit to 4TB as metadata cannot record more than that */
852 if (rdev->sectors >= (2ULL << 32))
853 rdev->sectors = (2ULL << 32) - 2;
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Lines 851-853 where introduced in version 2.6.32-37.80
A further hint:
I operate also another data server with the same raid setup (two hardware raids
merged to a raid0 md-raid), but with Ubuntu 12.04 on it (v 3.2.0-29). With
this raid I didnt have any problems up to now.
Checking the source code of md.c for the respective part, I find the following:
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rdev->sectors = rdev->sb_start;
/* Limit to 4TB as metadata cannot record more than that.
* (not needed for Linear and RAID0 as metadata doesn't
* record this size)
*/
if (rdev->sectors >= (2ULL << 32) && sb->level >= 1)
rdev->sectors = (2ULL << 32) - 2;
-------------
here, the 4 TB limit is only valid for raid levels above 1 ("&&
sb->level >= 1")
In summary:
-> introducing the 4 TB limit in general leads to problems for my large raids
-> limiting the 4 TB limit to raid levels above 1 seems to solve the problem
(as I use raid level 0)
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mdraid not assembled correctly when booting from kernel newer than
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