From: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
To: dean gaudet <dean@arctic.org>
Cc: Bryan Christ <bryan.christ@hp.com>,
Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>,
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Raid array is not automatically detected.
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:52:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <469DD4B4.4080103@dgreaves.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707172227490.16002@twinlark.arctic.org>
dean gaudet wrote:
>
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, David Greaves wrote:
>
>> Bryan Christ wrote:
>>> I do have the type set to 0xfd. Others have said that auto-assemble only
>>> works on RAID 0 and 1, but just as Justin mentioned, I too have another box
>>> with RAID5 that gets auto assembled by the kernel (also no initrd). I
>>> expected the same behavior when I built this array--again using mdadm
>>> instead of raidtools.
>> Any md arrays with partition type 0xfd using a 0.9 superblock should be
>> auto-assembled by a standard kernel.
>
> no... debian (and probably ubuntu) do not build md into the kernel, they
> build it as a module, and the module does not auto-detect 0xfd. i don't
> know anything about slackware, but i just felt it worth commenting that "a
> standard kernel" is not really descriptive enough.
Good point - I should have mentioned the non-module bit!
http://linux-raid.osdl.org/index.php/Autodetect
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-18 8:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-13 20:36 Raid array is not automatically detected Bryan Christ
2007-07-14 0:03 ` Zivago Lee
2007-07-14 2:09 ` Bryan Christ
2007-07-14 13:51 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-07-14 13:53 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-07-14 17:10 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-07-14 17:08 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-07-16 14:19 ` Bryan Christ
2007-07-16 15:21 ` David Greaves
2007-07-18 5:28 ` dean gaudet
2007-07-18 8:06 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-07-18 8:52 ` David Greaves [this message]
2007-07-18 14:39 ` Bryan Christ
2007-07-18 15:46 ` David Greaves
2007-07-18 15:49 ` Bryan Christ
2007-07-18 18:56 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-07-18 23:09 ` Neil Brown
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2008-10-17 15:07 Daniel Reichelt
2008-10-17 18:40 ` Bryan Christ
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