Re: RAID5 kicks non-fresh drives

[Craig Hollabaugh <craig@hollabaugh.com>]

On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 12:45 -0400, Mark Hahn wrote:
> I think the current situation is good, since there is some danger of 
> going too far.  for instance, testing each partition to see whether 
> it contains a valid superblock would be pretty crazy, right?  requiring
> either the "auto-assemble-me" partition type, or explicit partitions 
> given in a config file is a happy medium...
> 

I created my array in 1/2003, don't know versions of kernel or mdadm I
was using then.

In my situation over the past few days.
  kernel 2.4.30 kicked non-fresh
  kernel 2.6.11.8 kicked non-fresh
  kernel 2.6.18.8 didn't mention anything, just skipped my 'linux'
partitions

These kernels auto-assemble prior to mounting /. So the kernel doesn't
consult my 
/etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf file. Is this correct? 



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