From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wakko Warner Subject: How does one assemble a DDF or IMSM array? Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 21:52:31 -0400 Message-ID: <20120801015231.GE27163@animx.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids I've not used DDF or IMSM arrays much. I understand that the devices (ie /dev/sda and /dev/sdb) are the containers. I know that one can use mdadm -I on the devices and it will create mdXXX (last I tried it was 127) and then will create mdXXX for each virtual disk in the container and they will just work. If I do mdadm -A /dev/mdXXX, how would one get the volumes inside started? I tried mdadm -I /dev/mdXXX after mdadm -A. It created mdXXX where XXX is -2 from the first one (it 127 being the container and 125 being there but not in a state that works) Does DDF/IMSM require mdadm.conf to work when using -A? I'm not sure if I'm making myself very clear here or not. -- Microsoft has beaten Volkswagen's world record. Volkswagen only created 22 million bugs.