Re: problems with raid=noautodetect

2006-05-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
Luca Berra wrote: On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 01:10:24PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: 2) deprecate the "DEVICE" keyword issuing a warning when it is found in the configuration file Not sure I'm so keen on that, at least not in the near term. Let's not start warning and depreciating powerful fe

Re: problems with raid=noautodetect

2006-05-30 Thread Luca Berra
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 01:10:24PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: 2) deprecate the "DEVICE" keyword issuing a warning when it is found in the configuration file Not sure I'm so keen on that, at least not in the near term. Let's not start warning and depreciating powerful features because they ca

Re: problems with raid=noautodetect

2006-05-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
Neil Brown wrote: On Friday May 26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 08:39:26AM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: Presumably you have a 'DEVICE' line in mdadm.conf too? What is it. My first guess is that it isn't listing /dev/sdd? somehow. Neil, i am seeing a lot of peo

Re: problems with raid=noautodetect

2006-05-29 Thread Luca Berra
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 12:38:25PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: Neil Brown wrote: On Friday May 26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd suggest the following. "All the other devices" are included or excluded from the list of devices to consider based on the last component in the DEVICE line. Ie. if

Re: problems with raid=noautodetect

2006-05-29 Thread Michael Tokarev
Neil Brown wrote: > On Friday May 26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [] > If we assume there is a list of devices provided by a (possibly > default) 'DEVICE' line, then > > DEVICEFILTER !pattern1 !pattern2 pattern3 pattern4 > > could mean that any device in that list which matches pattern 1 or 2 > i

Re: problems with raid=noautodetect

2006-05-28 Thread Luca Berra
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 02:21:09PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: 3) introduce "DEVICEFILTER" or similar keyword with the same meaning at the actual "DEVICE" keyboard If it has the same meaning, why not leave it called 'DEVICE'??? the idea was to warn people that write DEVICE /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /

Re: problems with raid=noautodetect

2006-05-28 Thread Neil Brown
On Friday May 26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 08:39:26AM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > >Presumably you have a 'DEVICE' line in mdadm.conf too? What is it. > >My first guess is that it isn't listing /dev/sdd? somehow. > > Neil, > i am seeing a lot of people that fall in this sa

Re: problems with raid=noautodetect

2006-05-26 Thread Luca Berra
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 09:53:08AM +0200, Luca Berra wrote: On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 08:39:26AM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: Presumably you have a 'DEVICE' line in mdadm.conf too? What is it. My first guess is that it isn't listing /dev/sdd? somehow. Neil, i am seeing a lot of people that fall in

Re: problems with raid=noautodetect

2006-05-26 Thread Luca Berra
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 08:39:26AM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: Presumably you have a 'DEVICE' line in mdadm.conf too? What is it. My first guess is that it isn't listing /dev/sdd? somehow. Neil, i am seeing a lot of people that fall in this same error, and i would propose a way of avoiding this p

Re: problems with raid=noautodetect - solved

2006-05-25 Thread Nix
On 24 May 2006, Florian Dazinger uttered the following: > Neil Brown wrote: >> Presumably you have a 'DEVICE' line in mdadm.conf too? What is it. >> My first guess is that it isn't listing /dev/sdd? somehow. >> Otherwise, can you add a '-v' to the mdadm command that assembles the >> array, and cap

Re: problems with raid=noautodetect - solved

2006-05-24 Thread Florian Dazinger
Neil Brown wrote: Presumably you have a 'DEVICE' line in mdadm.conf too? What is it. My first guess is that it isn't listing /dev/sdd? somehow. Otherwise, can you add a '-v' to the mdadm command that assembles the array, and capture the output. That might be helpful. NeilBrown stupid me! I h

Re: problems with raid=noautodetect

2006-05-22 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday May 22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi list, > I read somewhere that it would be better not to rely on the > autodetect-mechanism in the kernel at boot time, but rather to set up > /etc/mdadm.conf accordingly and boot with raid=noautodetect. Well, I > tried that :) > > I set up /etc/md

problems with raid=noautodetect

2006-05-22 Thread Florian Dazinger
hi list, I read somewhere that it would be better not to rely on the autodetect-mechanism in the kernel at boot time, but rather to set up /etc/mdadm.conf accordingly and boot with raid=noautodetect. Well, I tried that :) I set up /etc/mdadm.conf for my 2 raid5 arrays: snip # mount