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On Sunday 13 November 2005 17:23, Richard Fish wrote: |
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> On 11/12/05, Mike Williams <mike@××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> > On Sunday 13 November 2005 01:49, Brian Parish wrote: |
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> > > I am trying to add a software RAID 5 disk set to an existing machine |
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> > > installed using genkernel. All the RAID support is compiled into the |
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> > > kernel, but no /dev/md? device files exist. I can create these using |
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> > > mknod and make the RAID, but they don't survive a reboot. How do I tell |
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> > > udev to create these files as persistant devices? |
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> > All partitions in the RAID set need to be set to partition type fd (Linux |
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> > raid autodetect), then the kernel will build the arrays during startup. |
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> FYI, this is only true if the raid drivers are compiled into the |
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> kernel (no modules), and you do _not_ use an initramfs to boot the |
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> system. If you use an initramfs, the kernel skips the autodetection |
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> of raid arrays. |
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> -Richard |
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I did and it does (skip that is). Thanks again Richard. |
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Brian |
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