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

[Eric Bélanger]

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa at gmx.de> wrote:
>> 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 :)
>>
>
> I just realized that I was using the raid hook. I'll test the mdadm one later.
>

I tested the mdadm hook with modified mdadm.conf. System booted fine.