On Sunday 13 November 2005 17:33, Brian Parish wrote: > On Sunday 13 November 2005 17:23, Richard Fish wrote: > > 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 > > I did and it does (skip that is). Thanks again Richard. > > Brian Removing the initramfs seemed like the line of least resistance here, so being basically lazy, that's what I did. /dev/md0 is now created and I can create my RAID array happily enough.
This still doesn't survive a reboot though. i.e. I have to run the mdadm --create command again. I assumed that this required something in mdadm.conf, so I updated that with all the magic numbers shown by mdadm -D. No change though. Is this an rc-update issue, or something? Thanks yet again Brian -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
