Yrurtj

I set up a Debian wheezy (7.6), installed openmediavault, and created a software raid 5 with that. It is listed at /dev/md127.
Now I want to move that to a virtual XEN VM. To do so, I have to stop Debian to automatically assemble the raid at startup, so I can put it through to the VM via xm block-attach, and I don't get that to work. No matter what I try, there is still md127 listed under /dev/, and after every boot I can manually end it via mdadm --stop /dev/md127. But even after that, it is still listed under /dev/.

What I already tried:

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  /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf: commented out array line:

  
  
  

  #ARRAY /dev/md0 metadata=1.2 name=masterbox:MainRaid UUID=3f620e6d:4e655d66:b931eb71:baf7cf3a  
  
  ARRAY /dev/md0 name=Null
  
  

  
  



• moved /libs/udev/rules.d/64-md-raid.rules to /root/



• update-initramfs u


• commented out the line in /etc/fstab
  


• disassembled raid manually via mdadm --stop /dev/md127
  


• 
  

  set kernel parameter raid=noautodetect in /etc/default/grub:

  
  
  

  GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet raid=noautodetect"  
  
  

  
  



• rebooted



• disabled mdadm services at boot

Here's also the log from dmesg:

[    3.448121] md: md127 stopped.

[    3.452518] md: bind<sda>

[    3.452747] md: bind<sdc>

[    3.452933] md: bind<sdb>



[    3.954794] md: raid6 personality registered for level 6

[    3.954797] md: raid5 personality registered for level 5

[    3.954799] md: raid4 personality registered for level 4

[    3.955417] bio: create slab <bio-1> at 1

[    3.955436] md/raid:md127: device sdb operational as raid disk 0

[    3.955439] md/raid:md127: device sdc operational as raid disk 2

[    3.955442] md/raid:md127: device sda operational as raid disk 1

[    3.955740] md/raid:md127: allocated 3228kB

[    3.955988] md/raid:md127: raid level 5 active with 3 out of 3 devices, algorithm 2

[    3.955991] RAID conf printout:

[    3.955993]  --- level:5 rd:3 wd:3

[    3.955996]  disk 0, o:1, dev:sdb

[    3.955999]  disk 1, o:1, dev:sda

[    3.956000]  disk 2, o:1, dev:sdc

[    3.956044] md127: detected capacity change from 0 to 6000916561920

... How can I bring Debian to not touch the raid drives at all, so I cann pass them to my VM?

You said you disabled the mdadm service, but that service runs the monitoring deamon; there's a separate mdadm-raid service that starts all md arrays in userland based on the configuration file. And, you can also run dpkg-reconfigure mdadm to disable auto-starting arrays.

This is an old question, but since I searched quite long for a solution, I want to share my result:

# /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf

ARRAY <ignore> UUID=3f620e6d:4e655d66:b931eb71:baf7cf3a

From man mdadm.conf:

   ARRAY  The  ARRAY  lines identify actual arrays.  The second word on the line may be the name of the device where the array

          is normally assembled, such as /dev/md1 or /dev/md/backup.  If the name does not start with a  slash  ('/'),  it  is

          treated  as  being  in /dev/md/.  Alternately the word <ignore> (complete with angle brackets) can be given in which

          case any array which matches the rest of the line will never be automatically  assembled.   If  no  device  name  is

          given, mdadm will use various heuristics to determine an appropriate name.

On Ubuntu 18.04, this worked:

AUTO -all

ARRAY <ignore> UUID=00000000:00000000:00000000:00000000

Nothing was auto-assembled after that point.