On Tuesday August 11, faerber@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi, > > i'm trying to figure out if it is possible to prevent the > automatic reconstruction that can occur during the md assembly > at boot. > I'm running Kernel 2.6.30.4 and use a RAID-1 over two SATA disks. > If the server is rebooted "hard" due to power loss etc. it often happens > that the reconstruction of my RAID-1 is automatically triggered by the kernel. > Is there any way to prevent this? I want to re-add the "out of sync" > drive myself > using mdadm only. > I'm currently using raid auto detection (partiton type fd) and the old > 0.90 superblock format but if it helps i would switch > to an initrd/newer superblock. There isn't any simple way to do what you want. May if you could explain why you want it, something else might be suitable. NeilBrown -- 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