Re: udev and mdadm -- I'm lost

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Konstantin Olchanski wrote:

>On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 04:40:23PM -0700, Dave Jiang wrote:
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>>>I see there is an mdadm  --auto option now...
>>>      
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>>Just use --auto or --auto=yes and it should take care of the device node 
>> creations. I have a /etc/mdadm.conf so I just do:
>>mdadm -As --auto=yes and it brings everything up over udev.
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>>
>
>I face a similar problem each time I use KNOPPIX to revive a non-booting
>server. It always takes me 10-20 minutes to figure out the right
>mdadm incantation to start the md devices. It does not help that mdadm
>wants an /etc/mdadm.conf which is on an md device itself, unaccessible.
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>
Hate to say it, that's a reward of a poor config choice and should be fixed.

>I wish there were a simple command to find and start all md devices, something
>along the lines of:
>
>mdadm --please-find-and-start-all-my-md-devices-please-please-please
>or
>mdadm --start-all, or whatever.
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