Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID start

2005-05-27 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
More Top posting... Great! You were right. I didn't know that putting "noauto" in fstab will also affect the starting of the RAID. I have noauto in my fstab because I have the keys for loop-aes on a usb device, which is of course not plugged in all the time. Therefore noauto. Cool now at least

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID start

2005-05-26 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 25 May 2005, Richard Fish wrote: > If you _do_ decide to rebuild the raid array, and you want the kernel to > autodetect things when it starts, then you need to have the right > partition types and create the array with the "persistent-superblock" > option, or use mdadm to create the array

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID start

2005-05-25 Thread Richard Fish
Top posting to keep flow... Sorry Benjamin, I think I missed something really obvious here. I didn't read your original message carefully enough, and thought you were having a problem with the kernel autodetection of your RAID. The part I missed is the "(skipped)" message you get... Looking thr

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID start

2005-05-25 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
Hi! I think I'll redo the RAID as soon as I find time. For now it'll do the way it is. As long as it works... I really can't mess with it right now since I really need the machine. Maybe this weekend... Thanks guys! Ben On Wednesday 25 May 2005 19:50, Richard Fish wrote: > Christoph Gysin wro

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID start

2005-05-25 Thread Richard Fish
Christoph Gysin wrote: >Benjamin Sobotta wrote: > > >>I set up a software RAID1 with two SATA disks. /home resides on the raid. >>This >>used to work great for month. At boot the machine would test the raid and >>start it. Great! >>2 days ago however I put loop-AES on top of it in order to en

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID start

2005-05-25 Thread Christoph Gysin
Benjamin Sobotta wrote: > I set up a software RAID1 with two SATA disks. /home resides on the raid. > This > used to work great for month. At boot the machine would test the raid and > start it. Great! > 2 days ago however I put loop-AES on top of it in order to encrypt my home > directory. Sin

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID start

2005-05-24 Thread Richard Fish
Benjamin Sobotta wrote: >Hi! > >Thanks for replying... > >Your setup guess is exactly right. > >I don't really get the part about the partitions. You mean the partition type >of /dev/md0? Well when I do "fdisk /dev/md0" und then type 'p' it shows >nothing. Might this be the problem? However it d

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID start

2005-05-24 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 19:01, Richard Fish wrote: > Benjamin Sobotta wrote: > >Hello! > > > >I set up a software RAID1 with two SATA disks. /home resides on the raid. > > This used to work great for month. At boot the machine would test the > > raid and start it. Great! > >2 days ago however I put

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID start

2005-05-24 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 19:01, Richard Fish wrote: > Benjamin Sobotta wrote: > >Hello! > > > >I set up a software RAID1 with two SATA disks. /home resides on the raid. > > This used to work great for month. At boot the machine would test the > > raid and start it. Great! > >2 days ago however I put

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID start

2005-05-24 Thread Richard Fish
Benjamin Sobotta wrote: >Hello! > >I set up a software RAID1 with two SATA disks. /home resides on the raid. This >used to work great for month. At boot the machine would test the raid and >start it. Great! >2 days ago however I put loop-AES on top of it in order to encrypt my home >directory.

[gentoo-user] Software RAID start

2005-05-24 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
Hello! I set up a software RAID1 with two SATA disks. /home resides on the raid. This used to work great for month. At boot the machine would test the raid and start it. Great! 2 days ago however I put loop-AES on top of it in order to encrypt my home directory. Since then it still finds the ra