When I set the mdraid service to start in the 'boot' runlevel, it takes a very long time to start, proportional to the number of arrays (about 2 minutes for 19 arrays). When it finally finishes, there are no named devices in /dev/md (only numbered ones) but everything works fine otherwise. If I set the service to start in the default runlevel or if I disable it and run mdadm -As on the command line, it finishes within seconds and the named devices are created properly, but that's too late for the dependent filesystems to be automounted. When the mdadm monitor daemon starts, it puts a line like the following in the system log for each named array: Feb 4 20:04:18 ing mdadm[3372]: DeviceDisappeared event detected on md device / dev/md/unsafe08 For the moment I'm working around this issue by using pam_mount to mount the filesystems when I log in. 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so enable the mdadm extra verbose output and send it to a log file also post your rc.log boot output
Created attachment 218831 [details] mdadm -Asvv output In the boot runlevel, mdadm pauses for several seconds after each "mdadm: /dev/md/____ has been started with 2 drives." line. In the default runlevel, it only pauses for a fraction of a second.
Created attachment 218833 [details] rc.log
i dont suppose mdadm-3.1.4 fixes this ? there were some other boot/hang issues that people reported but say are fixed with 3.1.4 ...
Sorry, I'm no longer able to test this because I've switched to using an initramfs with my root fs on lvm.
