[arch-general] limited softraid support in AIF (WAS:Why Is My RAID Installing Failing?)

[Baho Utot]

Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:51:32 +0100
> Alexander Duscheleit <jinks at archlinux.us> wrote:
> 
>> (..)
> 
> okay so long story short, you only want the mdadm.conf updating in AIF.
> there's a catch about your proposal though:
> - it's hard to parse fstab
> - you would only know the blockdevices after user configured fstab,
>   which is after prefill_config (note the *pre* fill part. this stuff
>   is supposed to happen so that the user can change the config
>   manually after it)
> 

why?  Couldn't a mdadm -Es > /mnt/etc/mdadm.conf be suffice?
I don't think you would have to parse fstab, All that you doing is makin 
a mdadm.conf...which you can do after thye raid is constructed.

mdadm -Es > /etc/mdadm.conf
mdadm -As

And the mdadm.con is made and the array is started.


> is it not an option to just look at all blockdevices?
> for example, what do you have in /proc/partitions on your raid system?
> 
> Dieter