On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 09:22:29PM -0500, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Andrew Reid <rei...@bellatlantic.net> wrote: > >> Is there a way to make sure my RAID (level 1) won't be started degraded? On > >> boot, one disk is found before the others, and the RAID is started before > >> the others are seen. (They are seen at different times because I am > >> transitioning from USB to eSATA, and the one eSATA disk is seen before any > >> USB disk.) I start my RAID manually anyway (not as part of the boot > >> process), so I'd be just as happy if it was never automatically started, > >> but I *really* don't want it started with just one disk. > > > > ?According to the mdadm.conf man-page, you can specify an array > > with the name "<ignore>" in that file (and rebuild the initramfs, > > presumably), and this will cause mdadm to never automatically > > assemble the array. > > > > ?You could then presumably assemble it "by hand" specifying > > the name to mdadm -A <whatever> later on. > > > > ?I actually checked the man-page because I was *sure* there > > was a "--no-degraded" option in there somewhere. ?There is such > > an option for the mdadm command, but it's not clear if it can > > be gotten in to the boot-time environment or not. > > You can also take a look and change > # INITRDSTART: > # list of arrays (or 'all') to start automatically when the initial ramdisk > # loads. This list *must* include the array holding your root filesystem. > Use > # 'none' to prevent any array from being started from the initial ramdisk. > INITRDSTART='all' > in "/etc/default/mdadm" before running update-initramfs or dpkg-reconfigure.
Ah, this looks really promising. Thank you. I'll see whether it worked the next time I reboot (which, I hope, won't be for a few hundred days). --Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110223123045.gc3...@anthropohedron.net
