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From: Steve Cousins <steve.cousins@maine.edu>
To: 'Neil Brown' <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: 'Linux RAID Mailing List' <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Correct way to create multiple RAID volumes with hot-spare?
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:34:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4509849B.3020006@maine.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000001c6d6ba$50819ad0$0e00a8c0@sherlock>



Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote:
> Steve, 
> 
> 
>>The recent "Messed up creating new array..." thread has 
>>someone who started by using the whole drives but she now 
>>wants to use partitions because the array is not starting 
>>automatically on boot (I think that was the symptom).  I'm 
>>guessing this is because there is no partigion ID of "fd" 
>>since there isn't even a partition.
> 
> 
> Yes, that's right.

Thanks Ruth.


Neil (or others), what is the recommended way to have the array start up 
if you use whole drives instead of partitions?  Do you put mdadm -A etc. 
in rc.local?

Thanks,

Steve



  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-14 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-22 19:05 Correct way to create multiple RAID volumes with hot-spare? Steve Cousins
2006-08-23 10:34 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-08-23 13:17   ` Joshua Baker-LePain
2006-08-25 16:17     ` Steve Cousins
2006-08-23 22:42 ` Neil Brown
2006-08-25 17:10   ` Steve Cousins
2006-09-12 21:05   ` Steve Cousins
2006-09-12 22:25     ` Ruth Ivimey-Cook
2006-09-14 16:34       ` Steve Cousins [this message]
2006-09-14 16:58         ` Neil Brown
2006-09-16 14:44         ` Bill Davidsen
2006-09-13  6:56     ` Lem

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