On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, David Greaves wrote:

> Bryan Christ wrote:
> > I do have the type set to 0xfd.  Others have said that auto-assemble only
> > works on RAID 0 and 1, but just as Justin mentioned, I too have another box
> > with RAID5 that gets auto assembled by the kernel (also no initrd).  I
> > expected the same behavior when I built this array--again using mdadm
> > instead of raidtools.
> 
> Any md arrays with partition type 0xfd using a 0.9 superblock should be
> auto-assembled by a standard kernel.

no... debian (and probably ubuntu) do not build md into the kernel, they 
build it as a module, and the module does not auto-detect 0xfd.  i don't 
know anything about slackware, but i just felt it worth commenting that "a 
standard kernel" is not really descriptive enough.

-dean
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