Re: Squeeze assembles one RAID array, at boot but not the other
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Ross Boylan <ross@biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-01-07 at 03:23 -0500, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> "FD00" only matters when using v0.9 metadata. Squeeze defaults to v1.x
>> (1.2 IIRC), which isn't auto-assembled by the kernel.
>
> This leaves me slightly confused about Debian's behavior. Earlier Bob
> said that 0xFD partitions used to be auto-assembled, but aren't now. I
> just want to check: does this depend on the RAID metadata format?
>
> I ask because
> https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RAID_superblock_formats says
> "Current Linux kernels (as of 2.6.28) can only autodetect (based on
> partition type being set to FD) arrays with superblock version 0.90."
>
> This implies the change away from auto-detection happened upstream for
> all but 0.90 format. Bob indicated some changes at the distro level to
> autodetection. Does that apply to 0.90?
I don't remember what Bob P said but the change away from
auto-detection was done upstream with the move to v1.x metadata.
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