On 17 Mar 2007, Chris Lindley told this: > What I think the OP is getting at is that MDADM will create an array > with partitions whose type is not set to FD (Linux Raid Auto), but are > perhaps 83. > > The issue with that is that upon a reboot mdadm will not be able to > start the array. I think you mean that the Linux kernel's auto-assembly code won't be able to start the array. mdadm doesn't care. > If you use MDADM to manually reassemble the array then > it will work fine. But until you reset the partition type to be FD, you > will have to run this step every time you reboot the machine. That's what initramfs/initrd is good at :) -- `In the future, company names will be a 32-character hex string.' --- Bruce Schneier on the shortage of company names - 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