On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 12:40 PM, Wol's lists <antlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 16/02/18 16:39, Sean Caron wrote: >> >> I feel like none of the arrays would start >> if mdadm.conf were not included in the initrd? > > > Probably depends on your distro, but I'm not aware of my system (gentoo) > having ANY mdadm.conf, and my arrays start fine. > > "--scan --incremental" doesn't need an mdadm.conf, although it is > recommended. > > Cheers, > Wol Like you I run Gentoo and for simple setups the distro doesn't really require it. However my / directory is on RAID6 so I had to build an initramfs to get it set up. That set of files is compiled into my kernel and does have the mdadm.conf included. Cheers, Mark -- 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
