Re: Slackware and RAID

[Dexter Filmore <Dexter.Filmore@gmx.de>]

> > What's the remaining third?
> > I fumbled it into rc.S and rc.6, reason why I ask is that array degraded
> > about 6 times in the few months I run it and I can't figure why. Only
> > thing I know is that it degrades somewhere in the reboot process, so I
> > suspect it might not properly shutdown.
>
> Have you tried simply setting the partition types to 0xFD and relying on
> the kernel auto-detect?
>
> I read here that there seems to be some resistance to this method though,
> but I've been using it for many years without any issues - however I'm not
> doing any thing "clever" like LVM or RAID on RAID (RAID1+0, etc.)

That's what I actually do: one big 0xFD partition per disk, raid5, lvm2, 3x 
xfs.
I run the array with
mdadm --assemble /dev/md0
and stop it with 
mdadm --stop --scan
after fs are unmounted and LVM is deactivated.


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