[arch-dev-public] [signoff] mdadm-2.6.8-2

[Tobias Powalowski]

Am Montag 09 März 2009 schrieb Eric Bélanger:
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa at gmx.de> wrote:
> >> Hi
> >> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10651
> >> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9122
> >> both states raid is broken for more complex setups.
> >>
> >> According to my earlier mail about assembling raid arrays i wrote a new
> >> hook and install file.
> >> It uses mdassemble.static from mdadm tarball which is smaller than
> >> mdadm.static and does the assembling job and loading of the needed raid
> >> module.
> >>
> >> How does it work:
> >> - If a an array is defined on users system /etc/mdadm.conf, the file
> >> will be added to initramfs and used for the assembling things.
> >> - If no array was defined it falls back to commandline assembling and a
> >>  madm.conf file will be created on the fly during bootup.
> >>  Old command line syntax wasn't changed, uuid support is added
> >>  (eg. md=0,0900878d:f95f6057:c39a36e9:55efa61b)
> >>
> >> Attention:
> >> Tested normal raid 1 setup with and without mdadm.conf modified.
> >> Not tested yet uuid assembling from commandline and partitionable raid!
> >> Will test this soon, if an other dev wants to test, please do so :)
> >
> > How do I test this, and or use this rather than the [raid] hook? Can
> > you show an example mkinitcpio.conf HOOKS line?
> >
> > -Dan
>
> My x86_64 raid system booted fine. It has a modified /etc/mdadm.conf
> and use RAID5.
Dan if you use simple raid hook just replace it with mdadm.

If you want to change to a mdadm.conf assembling run as root:
# to get just running md devices
mdadm -Ds >>mdadm.conf
# detecting by superblock
mdadm -Es >> mdadm.conf

If you use normal command line assembling you don't need to change anything 
and just replace raid with mdadm in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf to test this.
mkinitcpio -p kernel26
and it should work.

I replaced my command line assembling with mdadm.conf one, it's much cleaner 
now :)

greetings
tpowa
-- 
Tobias Powalowski
Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa)
http://www.archlinux.org
tpowa at archlinux.org
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