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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:40:10 -0600
To: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
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Subject: Re: RAID superblock confusion
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On Apr 10, 2002  09:33 -0600, Richard Gooch wrote:
> Even though I'm using persistent superblockss, which is supposed to
> allow one to move devices from one controller to another, I can't
> use my RAID) set in this configuration. Looks like a bug.
> 
> md0: former device scsi/host2/bus0/target1/lun0/part2 is unavailable, removing from array!
> md: md0, array needs 6 disks, has 5, aborting.

Note that this appears to be your real problem.

> Note the following line from the kernel logs above:
> md: can not import scsi/host6/bus0/target0/lun0/part2, has active inodes!
> 
> Well, that's no surprise, as this partition has /usr! And this
> partition isn't even mentioned in the /etc/raidtab file. But I note
> that it has the same device number in this (the broken) configuration
> as /dev/sd/c0b0t1u0p2 has in the working configuration.

That is a red herring, I think.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
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