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flockmock@×××.at posted 200904092105.19617.flockmock@×××.at, excerpted |
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below, on Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:05:19 +0200: |
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>> Regardless, most firmware RAIDs can be |
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>> configured JBOD and run with the more standard md/mdp kernel RAID |
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>> anyway. |
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> this is only true for raids with the old 0.90 superblock, when creating |
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> a raid system with a superblock =>1, you need a initramfs/initrd, |
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> because autodetect will not work. to quote the mdadm man page: |
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> "In-kernel autodetect is not recommended for new installations" |
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While I don't believe it's recommended, if I wasn't misreading recently, |
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I saw something saying support for kernel autodetecting (or at least |
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specifying the devices on the commandline) on the new superblocks now |
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worked. However, it's likely very new support, 2.6.28, maybe 2.6.29. I |
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do know there has been a lot of work on the md/mdp stuff lately, with |
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support for changing a RAID-5 into a RAID-6 just added (or was that |
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online RAID 5>6), for example. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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