From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
To: Chris Lindley <ferg@scotgate.org>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mdadm file system type check
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 23:08:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wt1fmprz.fsf@hades.wkstn.nix> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1174123640.12326.10.camel@scotgate> (Chris Lindley's message of "17 Mar 2007 09:53:52 -0000")
On 17 Mar 2007, Chris Lindley told this:
> What I think the OP is getting at is that MDADM will create an array
> with partitions whose type is not set to FD (Linux Raid Auto), but are
> perhaps 83.
>
> The issue with that is that upon a reboot mdadm will not be able to
> start the array.
I think you mean that the Linux kernel's auto-assembly code won't be
able to start the array. mdadm doesn't care.
> If you use MDADM to manually reassemble the array then
> it will work fine. But until you reset the partition type to be FD, you
> will have to run this step every time you reboot the machine.
That's what initramfs/initrd is good at :)
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-17 23:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-16 23:57 mdadm file system type check William L. Thomson Jr.
2007-03-17 1:30 ` Neil Brown
2007-03-17 2:42 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2007-03-17 5:40 ` Neil Brown
2007-03-17 8:20 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2007-03-17 18:10 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-03-17 18:50 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2007-03-17 1:39 ` berk walker
2007-03-17 9:27 ` Chris Lindley
2007-03-17 23:08 ` Nix [this message]
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