Re: md autostart?

[CD Rasmussen <cdr@rasmus.star.net>]

MD setup is easier than it looks.

When you used mdcreate to make /dev/md0 it wrote a file called
/etc/mdtab. 

You do not have to modify /etc/init.d/boot since it already has a call
to "mdadd -ar" if it and /etc/mdtab exist.

In other words, if you are running a recent copy of the sysvinit code
and you used mdcreate to make /dev/md0, you probably are already
getting it enabled at boot time.

Here's what I did to get mine working:

# mdcreate raid0 /dev/md0  /dev/sdb2 /dev/sdc2 /dev/sdd2 /dev/sde
# mdadd -ar
# e2fsck -fyv /dev/md0
# mkdir /raid
# echo '/dev/md0 /raid ext2 defaults  0  1' >> /etc/fstab
# mount /raid
# df
"cool, it works!"

OK, so I hammed it up but you get the idea.

Costa

   Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 17:13:30 -0500 (EST)
   From: Pete Templin <templin@bucknell.edu>
   To: Debian Users List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>,
           debian-devel@lists.debian.org
   Subject: md autostart?
   
   
   Hi there,
   
   	I just put the md package to use, and I have some semi-important
   questions...
   
   1) Do I need to do anything to ensure that my /dev/md0 has been started if
   I expect to use it in /etc/fstab?  If so, where do I put that?  My kernel
   has md compiled in (not a module).
   
   2) Can I also assume that it'll get unmounted cleanly and properly?
   
   Thanks for your help,
   
   Pete
   
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