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From: Mike Williams <mike@gaima.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Creating RAID devices - udev question
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 05:44:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200511130544.04390.mike@gaima.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200511131249.00538.bmp@univexsystems.com>

On Sunday 13 November 2005 01:49, Brian Parish wrote:
> I am trying to add a software RAID 5 disk set to an existing machine
> installed using genkernel.  All the RAID support is compiled into the
> kernel, but no /dev/md? device files exist.  I can create these using mknod
> and make the RAID, but they don't survive a reboot.  How do I tell udev to
> create these files as persistant devices?

All partitions in the RAID set need to be set to partition type fd (Linux raid 
autodetect), then the kernel will build the arrays during startup.

-- 
Mike Williams

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-13  5:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-13  1:49 [gentoo-user] Creating RAID devices - udev question Brian Parish
2005-11-13  2:25 ` Richard Fish
2005-11-13  5:44 ` Mike Williams [this message]
2005-11-13  6:23   ` Richard Fish
2005-11-13  6:33     ` Brian Parish
2005-11-19  5:19       ` Brian Parish
2005-11-19 14:15         ` Brian Parish
2005-11-19 14:35           ` Mike Williams
2005-11-19 15:30           ` A. Khattri
2005-11-21 15:32         ` Neil Bothwick

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