[CentOS] Lost raid when server reboots

Wed Nov 11 14:44:01 UTC 2009
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

Brendan Minish wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 12:43 +0100, carlopmart wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>   I have setup a raid1 between two iscsi disks and mdadm command goes well. Problems 
>> starts when i rebooted the server (CentOS 5.4 fully updated): raid is lost, and i 
>> don't understand why.
> 
> Just a thought, but are the raid partitions all marked as ID type fd
> (Linux raid autodetect) ? 

If the system wasn't installed on raid you may not have the raid module loaded 
in the initrd to autodetect at boot time.  Or the autodetect is happening before 
the iscsi connnections are made.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com