Re: Raid array is not automatically detected.

[Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>]

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, dean gaudet wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, David Greaves wrote:
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>> Bryan Christ wrote:
>>> I do have the type set to 0xfd.  Others have said that auto-assemble only
>>> works on RAID 0 and 1, but just as Justin mentioned, I too have another box
>>> with RAID5 that gets auto assembled by the kernel (also no initrd).  I
>>> expected the same behavior when I built this array--again using mdadm
>>> instead of raidtools.
>>
>> Any md arrays with partition type 0xfd using a 0.9 superblock should be
>> auto-assembled by a standard kernel.
>
> no... debian (and probably ubuntu) do not build md into the kernel, they
> build it as a module, and the module does not auto-detect 0xfd.  i don't
> know anything about slackware, but i just felt it worth commenting that "a
> standard kernel" is not really descriptive enough.
>
> -dean
>

You're correct-- however, I build out my own kernel.

Justin.