Since raidadd/raidrun have been replaced with raidstart and raidstart lacks some of the functionality of starting raid devices, the user must use "persistent-superblock 1" for each raid device, or when the raid is stopped, raidstart will not start it. All the /etc/raidtab is fine, but without this option in each raiddev stanze, if you raidstop the device, the next time I try to raidstart it, I messages in /var/log/messages of the type: kernel: (read) sdc1's sb offset: 8883840 [events: ea5fe76b] kernel: md: invalid raid superblock magic on sdc1 kernel: md: sdc1 has invalid sb, not importing! kernel: could not import sdc1! kernel: autostart sdc1 failed! kernel: huh12? Simply adding the persistant-superblock removes this problem. Without it, the first time you reboot, you lose your raid. It would be nice if this were documented as a "must do", and if it were mentioned in all the sample raidtabs in /usr/doc/raidtools-0.90, not just raid0.conf.sample in that direcotory.
This is fixed now.