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From: Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
Subject: Re: prefered way to update mdadm/mdadm.conf
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:18:38 +0200
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On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 02:16:22PM -0700, Timothy D. Lenz wrote:
>There seems to be 2 ways to update mdadm.conf. One puts a little more info in and both create duplicate info that msut be removed.
>Which is the better way:
>
>mdadm --examine --scan >> /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf
>mdadm --detail --scan >> /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf

the former will check physical devices for md superblock, and read
information from the found sb.
the latter will query active array for information

I use mdadm -Esc partition | grep ARRAY >> /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf
to inventory all array whether they are active or not.

I still would suggest checking the content of mdadm.conf after.

L.

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