On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 12:45 -0400, Mark Hahn wrote: > I think the current situation is good, since there is some danger of > going too far. for instance, testing each partition to see whether > it contains a valid superblock would be pretty crazy, right? requiring > either the "auto-assemble-me" partition type, or explicit partitions > given in a config file is a happy medium... > I created my array in 1/2003, don't know versions of kernel or mdadm I was using then. In my situation over the past few days. kernel 2.4.30 kicked non-fresh kernel 2.6.11.8 kicked non-fresh kernel 2.6.18.8 didn't mention anything, just skipped my 'linux' partitions These kernels auto-assemble prior to mounting /. So the kernel doesn't consult my /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf file. Is this correct? > -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Craig Hollabaugh, craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, 970 240 0509 Author of Embedded Linux: Hardware, Software and Interfacing www.embeddedlinuxinterfacing.com - 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