On Friday February 4, davidmaxwaterman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Neil Brown wrote: > > > > Release 1.9.0 adds: > ... > > - --assemble --auto recognises 'standard' name and insists on using > > the appropriate major/minor number for them. > > Is this the problem I encountered when I added auto=md to my mdadm.conf > file? Probably. > > It caused all sorts of problems - which were recoverable, fortunately. > > I ended up putting a '/sbin/MAKEDEV md' into /etc/rc.sysinit just before > the call to mdadm, but that creates all the md devices, not just those > that are needed. > > Will this new version allow me to remove this line in rc.sysinit again > and put the 'auto=md' back into mdadm.conf? I think so, yes. It is certainly worth a try and I would appreciate success of failure reports. NeilBrown - 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
