Re: mdadm -homehost problem (not localhost)

[Ross Boylan <ross@biostat.ucsf.edu>]

A small correction: the mdadm option about the host is --homehost, not
localhost.

And a small piece of information:
On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 11:45 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> Summary: mdadm on squeeze rewrites the UUID I give it with the
> localhost, even if I do not specify localhost.  I am trying to repair a
> RAID for use on lenny with an existing UUID.  Is there a way to avoid
> the rewrite?  Other solutions?
> 
[snip]
> 
> (*) from man mdadm on squeeze:
>       Also, using --uuid= when creating a v0.90 array will silently
>       override any --homehost= setting.
> Technically I didn't specify --homehost; maybe I should try that in
> order to get the host ignored!
> 
I did try specifying --homehost with uuid, both before an after, and it
was not ignored.

Ross