On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:38:30 -0700 "Patrick H." <linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > How can I prevent the MD driver from auto-creating md127 on boot? > I have a server which is exporting /dev/sdb1 via iSCSI. The remote > client for this device is using it in a raid device so it has raid > metadata on it. However because of this, when the target server boots > up, the md driver shoves it into md127. And because of this, the iSCSI > target daemon (tgtd) wont export the device as its now part of a raid > device. > The partition type is 0x83, not 0xfd. > > RHEL6 2.6.32-71 The md driver isn't auto-creating this. mdadm is being run and being asked to create this, possibly implicitly. Exactly how you stop this from happening depends on where it is an initrd script or a boot script that is doing it, and which version of mdadm you have. If you have 3.0 or later, then putting AUTO -all in mdadm.conf might be enough. If you have a 2.x, you probably need to tell the init script not to run mdadm, maybe edit the script, maybe set some default variable. I know little about RHEL and so cannot suggest specifics. 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
