On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Sean Puttergill wrote: > This is the kind of functionality provided by kernel > RAID autodetect. You don't have to have any config > information provided in advance. The kernel finds and > assembles all arrays on disks with RAID autodetect > partition type. I want to do the same thing, but with > mdadm. you know i've been bitten by that several times... the kernel sees the autodetect partition type of a disk which used to belong in another box (which for various reasons i've not yet been able to zero the old raid superblock)... and brings up a raid minor which conflicts with another array already present in the system... which causes device renaming to occur and can mess up the boot. (although if i'm using UUIDs or labels for mounting the filesystems it can almost work -- there are still a few cases where those don't help... such as xfs external log partition.) i suppose what i suggested doesn't do what you want... but i prefer not using kernel autoassembly these days because of the above problem. the 1.12 man page has more examples which can help you... echo "DEVICE partitions" >tmp.mdadm.conf mdadm --detail --scan --config=tmp.mdadm.conf >>tmp.mdadm.conf mdadm --assemble --scan --config=tmp.mdadm.conf i think that'll do what you want... -dean - 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
