After reading through the archives re: rc.sysint and starting raids at boot time, I ran across a patch written by Warren Togami <wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx>. After looking over what Warren had written, and comparing with the logic in my version of rc.sysint, I came up with the following diff. It works for me. I'm not sure this is the forum for this or who's interested, but at least this documents my resolution for the next one looking through the archive. Enjoy, BobH --- /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.FC2 2004-07-12 14:36:51.000000000 -0500 +++ /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit 2004-08-26 19:11:16.000000000 -0500 @@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ fi update_boot_stage RCraid -if [ -f /etc/raidtab ]; then +if [ -f /etc/raidtab -o -f /etc/mdadm.conf ]; then # Add raid devices [ -f /proc/mdstat ] || modprobe md >/dev/null 2>&1 @@ -476,7 +476,39 @@ echo -n $"Starting up RAID devices: " rc=0 - +#--- <mdadm addition> ---------------------------------------------------------# + if [ -r /etc/mdadm.conf -a -s /etc/mdadm.conf ]; then + # parse mdadm.conf + for i in `awk '{if ($1=="ARRAY") print $2}' /etc/mdadm.conf` + do + RAIDDEV=`basename $i` + RAIDSTAT=`LC_ALL=C grep "^$RAIDDEV : active" /proc/mdstat` + if [ -z "$RAIDSTAT" ]; then + RESULT=1 + INFSTAB=`LC_ALL=C grep -c "^$i" /etc/fstab` + if [ $INFSTAB -eq 0 ] ; then + RESULT=0 + RAIDDEV="$RAIDDEV(skipped)" + fi + NOAUTO=`LC_ALL=C grep "^$i" /etc/fstab | LC_ALL=C fgrep -c "noauto"` + if [ $NOAUTO -gt 0 ]; then + RESULT=0 + RAIDDEV="$RAIDDEV(skipped)" + fi + if [ $RESULT -gt 0 -a -x /sbin/mdadm ]; then + /sbin/mdadm --assemble --scan + rc=$? + fi + echo -n "$RAIDDEV " + else + echo -n "$RAIDDEV " + fi + done + fi +#--- </mdadm addition> --------------------------------------------------------# + + if [ -r /etc/raidtab -a -s /etc/raidtab ]; then + # parse raidtab for i in `awk '{if ($1=="raiddev") print $2}' /etc/raidtab` do RAIDDEV=`basename $i` @@ -520,7 +552,8 @@ echo -n "$RAIDDEV " fi done - echo + fi + echo # A non-zero return means there were problems. if [ $rc -gt 0 ]; then -- Bob Hillegas <bobhillegas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html