Re: 2+ raid sets, sata and a missing hd question

[CaT <cat@zip.com.au>]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 07:50:28AM +0100, Luca Berra wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 01:45:21PM +1100, CaT wrote:
> >Seeing as how SATA drives can move around if one removes one from a set
> >(ie given sda, sdb, sdc, if sdb was removed sdc drops to sdb) would md6
> >come back up without problems if I were to remove either sda or sdb.
> 
> if you configured mdadm correctly, you will have no problem :)
> 
> hint
> echo DEVICE partitions >> /etc/mdadm.conf
> mdadm -Esc partitions | grep ARRAY>> /etc/mdadm.conf

So the md5 array will reconstruct itself after initial bootup where the
kernel reconstructs the raid1 (as well as it can) for booting?

> >All md partitions are of type fd (Linux raid autodetect).
>
> this is surprisingly not at all relevant

Awww. But I like it when the kernel just, well, does it all and makes it
all ready. :)

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