flockm...@gmx.at posted 200904092105.19617.flockm...@gmx.at, excerpted below, on Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:05:19 +0200:
>> Regardless, most firmware RAIDs can be >> configured JBOD and run with the more standard md/mdp kernel RAID >> anyway. >> >> > this is only true for raids with the old 0.90 superblock, when creating > a raid system with a superblock =>1, you need a initramfs/initrd, > because autodetect will not work. to quote the mdadm man page: > "In-kernel autodetect is not recommended for new installations" While I don't believe it's recommended, if I wasn't misreading recently, I saw something saying support for kernel autodetecting (or at least specifying the devices on the commandline) on the new superblocks now worked. However, it's likely very new support, 2.6.28, maybe 2.6.29. I do know there has been a lot of work on the md/mdp stuff lately, with support for changing a RAID-5 into a RAID-6 just added (or was that online RAID 5>6), for example. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
