On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Nix wrote: > Last I heard the Debian initramfs constructs RAID arrays by explicitly > specifying the devices that make them up. This is, um, a bad idea: > the first time a disk fails or your kernel renumbers them you're > in *trouble*. yaird seems to dtrt ... at least in unstable. if you install yaird instead of initramfs-tools you get stuff like this in the initrd /init: mknod /dev/md3 b 9 3 mdadm -Ac partitions /dev/md3 --uuid 2b3a5b77:c7b4ab81:a2b8322a:db5c4e88 initramfs-tools also appears to do something which should work... but i haven't tested it... it basically runs "mdrun /dev" without specifying a minor/uuid for the root, so it'll start all arrays... i'm afraid that might mess up for one of my arrays which is "auto=mdp"... and has the annoying property of starting arrays on disks you've moved from other systems. so anyhow i lean towards yaird at the moment... (and i should submit some bug reports i guess). the above is on unstable... i don't use stable (and stable definitely does the wrong thing -- <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=338200>). -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
