From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EU8b2-0004uG-DT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 20:07:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9OK6lFe012490; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 20:06:47 GMT Received: from gimli.home.gaima.co.uk (cpc2-hudd1-6-0-cust92.hudd.cable.ntl.com [81.111.209.92]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9OK2toF021661 for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 20:02:55 GMT Received: (qmail 21397 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2005 21:02:54 +0100 Received: from localhost (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 24 Oct 2005 21:02:54 +0100 From: Mike Williams To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Moving system from "single-disk" to RAID-1 configuration Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 21:02:51 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <200510231553.37011.Dan.Johansson@dmj.nu> <200510242028.44718.ti.liame@email.it> In-Reply-To: <200510242028.44718.ti.liame@email.it> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510242102.53410.mike@gaima.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: 35b1b8b4-304d-4745-8b66-17617057c7d1 X-Archives-Hash: 93a9857cc81e0271dec41a5de2864492 On Monday 24 October 2005 19:28, Francesco Talamona wrote: > The most difficult thing was making disc naming sticky, I have a ASUS > A8V with a Via and a Promise controller, and the disk naming was so > sloppy that if sda failed all other disks were renamed to accommodate > in the free namespace, not at all reliable! I don't read french, so I don't know what that URL said, but device naming is not an issue. All you need to do is change the partition type to fd "Linux raid autodetect", then either: 1) Compile all the raid/ide/scsi drivers you need into the kernel, and all your arrays will be automagically created on startup. 2) Add an entry like at the bottom of page 1 of the linuxdevcenter article, except all you actually need is this: DEVICE partitions ARRAY /dev/md0 uuid=8ef83d67:79b230ba:6cc967c3:208b9224 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. -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list