From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Robinson Subject: Re: auto start raid0 with no superblock? Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:25:48 +0100 Message-ID: <4A78C37C.8010201@anonymous.org.uk> References: <200908041444.52747.tfjellstrom@shaw.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: NeilBrown Cc: tfjellstrom@shaw.ca, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 04/08/2009 23:35, NeilBrown wrote: > On Wed, August 5, 2009 6:44 am, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: >> I'm testing out accessing a "Windows DynamicDisk Raid0" array under linux, >> and >> for the most part it works very well. My only problem is mdadm will not >> auto >> start the array even when I have it setup in mdadm.conf (mdadm is told to >> auto >> start all arrays found there). Basically I have to manually run "mdadm >> --build >> /dev/md0 --chunk=64 --level=raid0 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 >> /dev/sde1 /dev/sdf1" then "mount /mnt/winraid" when I want to access the >> filesystem (using ntfs-3g if anyone was wondering). > > Of course you don't have to run it manually. You can put it in > a script in /etc/rc5.d/Sxxwhatever > > That is in fact the recommended way of doing this. There is really > nothing that mdadm can do for you to make this any easier, so it > doesn't bother. It doesn't, and couldn't, support ARRAY /dev/md0 devices=/dev/sdc1,/dev/sdd1,/dev/sde1,/dev/sdf1 level=0 metadata=none appearing in mdadm.conf? Cheers, John.