On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Tobias Powalowski <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10651 > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9122 > both states raid is broken for more complex setups. > > According to my earlier mail about assembling raid arrays i wrote a new hook > and install file. > It uses mdassemble.static from mdadm tarball which is smaller than > mdadm.static and does the assembling job and loading of the needed raid > module. > > How does it work: > - If a an array is defined on users system /etc/mdadm.conf, the file will be > added to initramfs and used for the assembling things. > - If no array was defined it falls back to commandline assembling and a > madm.conf file will be created on the fly during bootup. > Old command line syntax wasn't changed, uuid support is added > (eg. md=0,0900878d:f95f6057:c39a36e9:55efa61b) > > thoughts on it? > built x86_64 package and other files are here: > http://dev.archlinux.org/~tpowa/mdadm/ > Attention: > Tested normal raid 1 setup with and without mdadm.conf modified. > Not tested yet uuid assembling from commandline and partitionable raid!
I just looked at the initramfs stuff and it looks good. Maybe I'll take one of my unused laptops and make a bunk raid array on it for testing. :)
