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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 mknod |
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> > and make the RAID, but they don't survive a reboot. How do I tell udev to |
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> > 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 raid |
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> 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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