From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tim Small Subject: Re: Debian kernel stanza after aptitude kernel upgrade Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:11:35 +0100 Message-ID: <4CA1CD67.4040700@seoss.co.uk> References: <30D96C04B1444C569D53B7790707D718@DesktopManie> <4C98CCCD.80101@seoss.co.uk> <20100922062946.7e56d1d1@notabene> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100922062946.7e56d1d1@notabene> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Neil Brown Cc: "A. Krijgsman" , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 21/09/10 21:29, Neil Brown wrote: >> I think you need to stick the output of >> >> mdadm --examine --scan >> >> into /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf >> > It is generally better to use > mdadm --detail --scan > > for generating mdadm.conf as it is more likely to get the device names > right. And when doing this by hand, always review the output to make sure it > looks right. > Thanks for that Neil - Debian (and thus Ubuntu) currently uses the output of "mdadm --examine --scan --config=partitions" when autogenerating the mdadm.conf output. Should this be considered a bug? If so, could you give a bit of detail, and I'll open a bug for the script.... Thanks, Tim. -- South East Open Source Solutions Limited Registered in England and Wales with company number 06134732. Registered Office: 2 Powell Gardens, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 1TQ VAT number: 900 6633 53 http://seoss.co.uk/ +44-(0)1273-808309