On 11/12/05, Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
FYI, this is only true if the raid drivers are compiled into the kernel (no modules), and you do _not_ use an initramfs to boot the system. If you use an initramfs, the kernel skips the autodetection of raid arrays. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
