hi, On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 12:48:42AM +0100, Andreas Trottmann wrote: > No. /etc/fstab will reference /dev/mdX devices, which just "are not > there" with a kernel that has no software raid support compiled in. > > The corresponding /dev/hdXX devices contain the data, are "mountable" > and work 100%, but if fstab tells the kernel that the /usr filesystem is > to be mounted from /dev/md2, no "raidless" kernel will figure out that > it needs to mount /dev/hda5 instead. will it work with filesystem labels? from mount(8): -L label Mount the partition that has the specified label. with something like this in /etc/fstab LABEL=label /mnt ext2 default 0 2 will the kernel be confused, if /dev/sda1 and /dev/md0 contain the same label, or will it just take /dev/md0? /me doesn't have raid compiled in, could anyone check this? using labels would be good anyway, as the user could swap his disks (primarys/secondar, master/slave, scsi-ids) without making the system unbootable hmm, does label support work for the root-disk? haven't checked that -- CU, / Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen, Germany Martin Waitz // [Tali on IRCnet] [tali.home.pages.de] _________ ______________/// - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - /// dies ist eine manuell generierte mail, sie beinhaltet // tippfehler und ist auch ohne grossbuchstaben gueltig. /
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