[mdlug] "Device busy" errors and RAID setup issues

[Jeff Hanson]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 8:06 PM, David McMillan <skyefire at skyefire.org> wrote:
>        That's a whole lot of action in quick succession.  I'm no expert, but
> it looks like the system starts a resync, generates a fault (no idea
> why, I hadn't even put any files on it yet) and begins background
> reconstruction.
>        *Then* there's a NewArray event, which doesn't make any sense since
> that array was a good 24hrs old at this point.  Unless it's some sort of
> flag that an array is new and hasn't been used yet?
>        Then, finally, there's a RebuildStarted event, but as I understand it,
> that should have shown up in /proc/mdstat.
>

I suspect NewArray message is just info, not an error.  I'm not sure
what else I can do without being local.

Assuming a bug report at this point you should probably try the exact
same steps with the previous distro release and see if it works.  Also
try a different distro.