Re: Automatically start two-level mdadm RAID arrays (i.e. RAID 60) on boot?

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

Dear Sean,

In message <CAA43vkW82nJXmwo7=HAhO+shx_Obak_tm7Vy0EKWW+HWW6brnw@mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> As it is now, we just populate /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf ARRAY lines with
> the output of mdadm --examine --scan after building all the RAID 6
> strings and the top level RAID 0 container. This gives the result
> where the RAID 0 containers are the last lines in the file, after all
> the RAID 6 strings. For example, on a machine with RAID 6 strings
> md0...4 and RAID 0 string md5 (containing md0...md4), we have
> mdadm.conf contents like:

Just in case it is not clear (you didn't mention you did): after
generating /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf you _must_ also rebuild the
initramfs image for your running kernel, so the new mdadm.conf gets
included there, where it is actually needed.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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