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From: "Keld Jørn Simonsen" <keld@dkuug.dk>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: auto-assembling arrays without a configuration file
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 11:49:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080308104907.GA16373@rap.rap.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080308004009.GA32251@rap.rap.dk>

On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 01:40:09AM +0100, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
> I want to assemble the root partition automatically, without having 
> a configuration file. Is that possible? 
> 
> mdadm -A --scan 
> 
> does seem to require a configuration file.
> 
> On the other hand, I think all info needed is available in the super
> blocks, and a traversal of the partitions present on the system (ala
> fdisk -l) could give consistent naming - there seems to be no /dev/md
> association available in the superblock.

I tried 

mdadm -A --scan  --config partitions

But it did not work, error message something like raid array not found.

Best regards
keld
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-08 10:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-08  0:40 auto-assembling arrays without a configuration file Keld Jørn Simonsen
2008-03-08 10:49 ` Keld Jørn Simonsen [this message]
2008-03-09 23:25 ` Neil Brown
     [not found] ` <18388.27742.907731.241140@notabene.brown>
2008-03-10 13:48   ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2008-03-10 15:08     ` Andre Noll
2008-03-14  5:27     ` Neil Brown

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