Nicholas Leippe wrote: > You should be able to view all of the superblock metadata with examine > and/or query management flags to mdadm and see how they are > configured.
mdadm -E doesn't show anything different after I update the homehost, unfortunately. Will play more with this. >> If I read the manpages correctly, this is how you would change it after >> the fact (as an example): >> >> mdadm -A /dev/md4 --homehost=<vmhostname> --update=homehost --auto=yes >> /dev/sdd1 /dev/sdp1 >> >> However this had no effect. The host still happily assembles >> everything, even things with this new homehost. I'm wondering if >> there's not a bug in the redhat initrd stuff. > > Ah, yes. Forgot about that. Even if you tell the kernel > raid=noautodetect there may be an init script that looks for md > devices to assemble. I haven't used redhat recently enough to know. > You'll have to find it and disable it. Right. Since RAID stuff is in a module, the kernel parem doesn't do anything. > It might be part of the local mount (equivalent) init script. It's all in the initrd. I've unpacked it and had a look at the init script in it. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
