> > What's the remaining third? > > I fumbled it into rc.S and rc.6, reason why I ask is that array degraded > > about 6 times in the few months I run it and I can't figure why. Only > > thing I know is that it degrades somewhere in the reboot process, so I > > suspect it might not properly shutdown. > > Have you tried simply setting the partition types to 0xFD and relying on > the kernel auto-detect? > > I read here that there seems to be some resistance to this method though, > but I've been using it for many years without any issues - however I'm not > doing any thing "clever" like LVM or RAID on RAID (RAID1+0, etc.) That's what I actually do: one big 0xFD partition per disk, raid5, lvm2, 3x xfs. I run the array with mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 and stop it with mdadm --stop --scan after fs are unmounted and LVM is deactivated. -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d--(+)@ s-:+ a- C++++ UL++ P+>++ L+++>++++ E-- W++ N o? K- w--(---) !O M+ V- PS+ PE Y++ PGP t++(---)@ 5 X+(++) R+(++) tv--(+)@ b++(+++) DI+++ D- G++ e* h>++ r* y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ http://www.stop1984.com http://www.againsttcpa.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
