Messages in this thread | | | From | Neil Brown <> | Date | Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:32:19 +1100 | Subject | Re: Modular kernel (2.6.20) and software raid auto detection |
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On Thursday February 15, andrew@walrond.org wrote: > > With my ide driver and the md stuff all built into the kernel, my software > raid drives and associated /dev/md? devices are detected and created by the > kernel.
Yep.
> > With the md stuff built in but the ide driver modular and loaded later by > udev, the drives are not detected.
No, they aren't.
> > So, I guessed that perhaps if I made the md stuff modular aswell and load it > _after_ loading the ide driver, this might kickstart the auto-detect stuff. > But it didn't :(
No, it wouldn't.
> > Is there a way to make auto-detection work without having the ide driver built > in?
Don't use in-kernel auto-detection. Use mdadm to do the auto-detection for you.
mdadm --assemble --scan --homehost='<system>' --auto-update-homehost
might work providing your hostname has been set by the time it runs.
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