Avuton Olrich wrote:
On 7/20/06, Jonathan Briggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You're not supposed to be doing it that way these days. RAID autodetect
is getting tossed out of the kernel in the future (probably still many
Bit OT, but is there something that is supposed to replace RAID
autodetect, or we're just supposed to make initscripts to run mdadm?
I'm not sure, but I suspect it may have something to do with the
device-mapper. I know that's what I use for a striped array -- and yes,
I have to make an initscript -- initrd, because I boot off the thing --
to set them up. The good news is, the detection can be done in userland
now -- since mine is nvidia raid, I can use dmraid, which runs entirely
in userland, autodetects from BIOS settings, then sets up a proper
device-mapper table in the kernel.
Device-mapper doesn't support everything yet (as far as I know), but the
principle should be about the same for more complex RAID -- some
userland tool. There really is no reason for this autodetection to be
in the kernel.
In the meantime, there may be rough edges...
