> no, you should use mkraid at every bootup.
Yikes -- I feel that "mkraid" does "serious damage" to existing FS.
I guess "--debug" and raid0/linear without SBs are fairly "safe" ...
> The difference now is that you can have persistent configuration data,
> which can be auto-started. (either at bootup or manually)
It would be very useful to be able to tell the kernel "try autostart again".
[[ BTW: should autostart inspect all md's it creates, and see if they have
embedded SBs ? So far I have failed to get either striped-mirrors
or mirrored-stripes to autostart -- it only looks at partitions of
type oxfd, but md's don't *hav* partition types ...
]]
> well, i've planned to 'probe' every device mentioned in raidtab, but the
> preferred way is to use autostart anyway. (autostart can deal with such
> partly-corrupt scenarios too, plus with lots of other scenarios like
> device renumbering)
Easier if there were a way to tell the kernel "try autostart again" ...
> yep, nice idea, this could be a new option. (because the parameter to
> raidstart has to be the MD device) Feel free to send me patches.
Shall do.
