Re: Raid 0 array

[Antony Gelberg <antony@wayforth.co.uk>]

TAC Forums wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> We have a Debian 3.1 Sarge Stable running on a backup server.
> 
> The server has 5 Harddisks, two IDE and Three SCSI.
> When we manually form the RAID array with the mdadm command , do an
> mkfs.ext3 on the array and then mount the array ( /dev/md0) on /backup
> every thing is fine.
> 
> But when a restart is done, the raid array is not formed.
> How can i initialize the Raid array formation at boot up?
> While installing mdadm , i did say yes to auto-start it.

Perhaps you need to configure mdadm.conf?

NB I believe that according to the FHS, mountpoints off / are not
encouraged.