Re: Initrd and software raid

2003-12-12 Thread Florent Rougon
Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 09:48:55AM +0100, Florent Rougon wrote: >> autodetection to manual setting in my GRUB config files and am happy >> with this setup (I hate black magic). > > Black magic can be good for multi path io, sans and generally for a > un

Re: Initrd and software raid [was: Initrd rocks!]

2003-12-11 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 09:48:55AM +0100, Florent Rougon wrote: > autodetection to manual setting in my GRUB config files and am happy > with this setup (I hate black magic). Black magic can be good for multi path io, sans and generally for a unattended reboot on hardware changes. Greetings Bernd

Re: Initrd and software raid

2003-12-11 Thread Florent Rougon
Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I think this is unlikely, since (-s = --scan) is what is used in the >> Debian aforementioned init script for mdadm (/etc/init.d/mdadm-raid). > > That is simply wrong. The mdadm-raid init script uses the mdrun script > which was written IIRC because of fo

Re: Initrd and software raid [was: Initrd rocks!]

2003-12-10 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Florent Rougon [Wed, Dec 10 2003, 09:48:55AM]: > Note: this starts the root array only; the other arrays are started by a > "mdadm -A -s" from /etc/init.d/mdadm-raid. > > > IIRC, There is a parameter to mdadm (--scan?) that could be used for > > this, but when I asked the initrd

Re: Initrd and software raid [was: Initrd rocks!]

2003-12-10 Thread Florent Rougon
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe the kernel raid1 autodetection only works if raid1 is compiled > into the kernel. That is true as explained in: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-raid&m=105232695713715&w=2 In short, to get autostart with md compiled as modules, you need to