A command-line transcript with commentary, this example shows the creation, shutdown, and startup of a Software RAID 5, a logical volume, and a growable filesystem.

The mdadm command will fail when asked to assemble a RAID when one or more of the listed devices is a missing or failed AoE device.

This example script starts RAID1s with at least one available component. It calls the mdadm assemble command listing only components that are in the output of aoe-stat.