On Monday 24 October 2005 22:02, Mike Williams wrote:
> On Monday 24 October 2005 19:28, Francesco Talamona wrote:
> > The most difficult thing was making disc naming sticky, I have a
> > ASUS A8V with a Via and a Promise controller, and the disk naming
> > was so sloppy that if sda failed all other disks were renamed to
> > accommodate in the free namespace, not at all reliable!
>
> I don't read french, so I don't know what that URL said, but device
> naming is not an issue.
I made an exstensive serie of test before running into troubles... It
was an occasion to understand udev in depth.
> All you need to do is change the partition type to fd "Linux raid
> autodetect", then either:
> 1) Compile all the raid/ide/scsi drivers you need into the kernel,
> and all your arrays will be automagically created on startup.
> 2) Add an entry like at the bottom of page 1 of the linuxdevcenter
> article, except all you actually need is this:
>
> DEVICE partitions
> ARRAY /dev/md0 uuid=8ef83d67:79b230ba:6cc967c3:208b9224
AFAIK fd partition type is mandatory. Anyway is good to know that I can
avoid explicit node names in config files.
> I have a SATA card that doesn't have in kernel drivers, so I have to
> load a module, which naturally means the kernel can't autostart all
> my arrays, but mdadm can without me having to tell it any device
> nodes.
How can you prevent it to start in degraded mode?
ciao
Francesco
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