I came up with a small script that I used a while back. I don't have it now. It looked something like: echo "DEVICE partitions" > /etc/mdadm.conf mdadm -Ebsc partitions >> /etc/mdadm.conf mdadm -A --scan --David Dougall On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Matthew Bloch wrote: > Hi there, > > After a lot of compiling static kernels, I'm building a generic one for our > particular mix of servers, so the md code is now modular. I didn't realise > that I'd lose the automatic array assembly functionality, though I > appreciate reasons for trying to deprecate it. > > Can anyone suggest a better shell equivalent of the array assembly > functionality that I can use with a modular md? So far I've got: > > for DEV in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ; do > mdadm -Ac partitions -m $DEV /dev/md$DEV > done > > But this seems a bit slow as it tears through every device in /dev on each > call (about 30 seconds per mdadm call). I don't want to have RAID > configuration files on each server if I can avoid it, as I know that all > the info I need will be in the relevant discs' superblocks. > > Any better ideas for doing the job? > > -- > Matthew Bloch Bytemark Hosting > http://www.bytemark.co.uk/ > phone UK: 0845 004 3 004 US: 1-877 BYTEMAR > Dedicated Linux hosts from 15ukp ($26) per month > > - > 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 > > > - 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
