Re: Correct way to create multiple RAID volumes with hot-spare?

[Steve Cousins <steve.cousins@maine.edu>]

Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote:
> Steve, 
> 
> 
>>The recent "Messed up creating new array..." thread has 
>>someone who started by using the whole drives but she now 
>>wants to use partitions because the array is not starting 
>>automatically on boot (I think that was the symptom).  I'm 
>>guessing this is because there is no partigion ID of "fd" 
>>since there isn't even a partition.
> 
> 
> Yes, that's right.

Thanks Ruth.


Neil (or others), what is the recommended way to have the array start up 
if you use whole drives instead of partitions?  Do you put mdadm -A etc. 
in rc.local?

Thanks,

Steve