Sometimes mdadm create fails causing all subsequent commands to fail

Attempting fix from : http://dev.bizo.com/2012/07/mdadm-device-or-resource-busy.html
elastic · May 19, 2016 · 641d4e4 · 641d4e4
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diff --git a/src/scripts/vm-disk-utils-0.1.sh b/src/scripts/vm-disk-utils-0.1.sh
@@ -274,7 +274,9 @@ create_striped_volume()
 
     MDDEVICE=$(get_next_md_device)
 
+  sudo udevadm control --stop-exec-queue
 	mdadm --create ${MDDEVICE} --level 0 --raid-devices ${#PARTITIONS[@]} ${PARTITIONS[*]}
+  sudo udevadm control --start-exec-queue
 
 	MOUNTPOINT=$(get_next_mountpoint)
 	log "Next mount point appears to be ${MOUNTPOINT}"