From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Fjellstrom Subject: Re: small mdadm issue under debian Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:04:51 -0600 Message-ID: <200910291204.51703.tfjellstrom@shaw.ca> References: <200910290124.59090.tfjellstrom@shaw.ca> <200910291120.24803.tfjellstrom@shaw.ca> <4AE9D337.30609@shiftmail.org> Reply-To: tfjellstrom@shaw.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4AE9D337.30609@shiftmail.org> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Asdo Cc: linux-raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Thu October 29 2009, Asdo wrote: > Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > >> Then reboot to a new kernel and see if it auto assembles. > > > > I don't have them auto assemble in initrd/initramfs. Its done later in > > the mdadm-raid script if I read it correctly. Its also a 1.1 metadata > > array, so the kernel can't auto assemble it itself. > > You probably mean "it can't auto assemble it itself without an > initramfs"! :-D Maybe I'm being a little pedantic, but initramfs is a miniature userspace so it isn't the kernel that is doing the auto assembling ;) just an embedded mdadm ;) > I have my root filesystem on a 1.0 metadata raid on 2.6.31 so it > definitely assembles it... > For 1.1 I suppose it's the same. > But it does need to be in the /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf that is packed in > the initramfs, so make sure the problem is not that one, try by > unpacking the initramfs with cpio > I don't need it to assemble my array at boot time, the array is used for media files, not the root partition. I would however like the mdadm-raid script to be able to assemble the array during boot, which works under 2.6.26, and not under 2.6.29,.30, or .31. -- Thomas Fjellstrom tfjellstrom@shaw.ca