From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dexter Filmore Subject: Re: Slackware and RAID Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 20:39:09 +0200 Message-ID: <200609162039.09488.Dexter.Filmore@gmx.de> References: <200609161230.22530.Dexter.Filmore@gmx.de> <200609162032.07509.Dexter.Filmore@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Gordon Henderson Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids > > 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. -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d--(+)@ s-:+ a- C++++ UL++ P+>++ L+++>++++ E-- W++ N o? K- w--(---) !O M+ V- PS+ PE Y++ PGP t++(---)@ 5 X+(++) R+(++) tv--(+)@ b++(+++) DI+++ D- G++ e* h>++ r* y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ http://www.stop1984.com http://www.againsttcpa.com