>>>>> On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, "Ingo" == Ingo Molnar wrote:
Ingo> well, it was boot-time 'very early' autostarting, but not
Ingo> RAID-autostarting in the classic sense.
Understood.
Ingo> I think i'll fix raidstart to simply iterate through all available
Ingo> partitions, until one is started up correctly (or until all entries
Ingo> fail).
Good idea, the present failure mode is extremely frightening if you're unlucky
enough to lose the first disk :-(
Ingo> This still doesnt cover all the cases which are covered by the 0xfd
Ingo> method (such as card failure, device reshuffling, etc.), but should
Ingo> cover your case (which is definitely the most common one).
Agreed.
+> So, you're saying that the array would have automatically recovered if I
+> had had all five partitions set 0xfd?
Ingo> yes, definitely. Not marking a partition 0xfd is the more conservative
Ingo> approach from the installer's point of view in a possibly multi-OS
Ingo> environment, you can always mark it 0xfd later on.
Thanks for taking the time to clarify this for me.
-Darren
