On Tuesday 25 October 2005 12.27, Mike Williams wrote: > On Tuesday 25 October 2005 06:01, Francesco Talamona wrote: > > > DEVICE partitions > > > ARRAY /dev/md0 uuid=8ef83d67:79b230ba:6cc967c3:208b9224 > > > > AFAIK fd partition type is mandatory. Anyway is good to know that I can > > avoid explicit node names in config files. > > I'm not sure it's mandatory, but there really is no reason not to do so. > > > > I have a SATA card that doesn't have in kernel drivers, so I have to > > > load a module, which naturally means the kernel can't autostart all > > > my arrays, but mdadm can without me having to tell it any device > > > nodes. > > > > How can you prevent it to start in degraded mode? > > I don't have the raid drivers compiled into the kernel :) > I have 3 arrays, 2 of which have more devices on the SATA card than the > array can loose. mdadm would warn me by email if it detected any array in > degraded mode anyway. > > I'm not sure what problem you had that meant you could only create a > degraded array. But if you boot from a gentoo livecd you can create a > mirror from an existing disk *without* losing any data, or needing to > backup. If you specify the disk/partition with the data on it you want to > keep *first* to mdadm, that data will get replicated to the others.
Thanks for your input. Just one Question about setting the partition type to 'FD' - should I do this for all Partitions or ? Today I have the following Partitions defined Partition Type FS /dev/hde1 83 /boot /dev/hde2 82 (SWAP) /dev/hde3 83 / /dev/hde4 8E (LVM) Regards, -- Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu> *************************************************** This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons! ***************************************************
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