On Donnerstag, 21. März 2013 14:24:59 NeilBrown wrote:
> 
> Thanks! Unfortunately it is not as helpful as I hoped, but it does suggest
> that "udevadm settle" does sometimes appear to misbehave even if there
> aren't any problems with the md array.
> 
> Could I ask for one more?
> Prefix the "udevadm settle " command with
>   strace  -o /tmp/udevadm.trace -s 500
> 
> (making sure that you have 'strace' installed) and then post the
> "/tmp/udevadm.trace" file.  Hopefully that will at least allow me to rule
> out some possibilities.

After reducing the timeout to 40 secs, we're able to catch a failure today
with two degraded arrays: md0 and md1.

Cheers,
Pete