thanks for the tip! On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 15:07 +0000, Daniel Reichelt wrote: > Hi Bryan, > I was just having the same problem and the mdadm man page clearly states: > ---------------------------- > --homehost= > This will override any HOMEHOST setting in the config file and provides the > identity of the host which should be considered the home for any arrays. > > When creating an array, the homehost will be recorded in the superblock. > For version-1 superblocks, it will be prefixed to the array name. For > version-0.90 superblocks, part of the SHA1 hash of the hostname will be stored > in the later half of the UUID. > > When reporting information about an array, any array which is tagged for > the given homehost will be reported as such. > > **** > When using Auto-Assemble, only arrays tagged for the given homehost will be > assembled. > **** > ---------------------------- > > So just once stop your array and manually assemble it like > mdadm -A <md-device> <components> --homehost=<somestring> --update=homehost > and from the next reboot on, that array, too, will automatically be assembled > by the linux kernel. > HTH > Daniel -- 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