Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: let md auto-detect 128+ raid members, fix potential race condition | From | Alexandre Oliva <> | Date | Tue, 01 Aug 2006 18:24:11 -0300 |
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On Aug 1, 2006, Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> wrote:
> Alexandre Oliva wrote: > [] >> If mdadm can indeed scan all partitions to bring up all raid devices >> in them, like nash's raidautorun does, great. I'll give that a try,
> Never, ever, try to do that (again). Mdadm (or vgscan, or whatever) > should NOT assemble ALL arrays found, but only those which it has > been told to assemble. This is it again: you bring another disk into > a system (disk which comes from another machine), and mdadm finds > FOREIGN arrays and brings them up as /dev/md0, where YOUR root > filesystem should be. That's what 'homehost' option is for, for > example.
Exactly. So make it /all/all local/, if you must. It's the same as far as I'm concerned.
> If initrd should be reconfigured after some changes (be it raid > arrays, LVM volumes, hostname, whatever), -- I for one am fine > with that.
Feel free to be fine with it, as long as you also let me be free to not be fine with it and try to cut a better deal :-)
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