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| Newer page: | version 10 | Last edited on Tuesday, October 4, 2005 1:43:45 pm | by GianPerrone | Revert |
| Older page: | version 9 | Last edited on Wednesday, July 13, 2005 1:36:47 pm | by DanielLawson | Revert |
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build a new initrd image upon installation. They should automatically notice if the
root device is /dev/md* and arrange for the appropriate modules to be present in the
initrd image and loaded appropriately. So if the software raid array is actually
your root filesystem when you do the kernel install, everything should just work.
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+! Udev and Software RAID
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+While trying to do software RAID on an Ubuntu machine, I ran into the problem of my /dev/md0 device spontaneously disappearing at the most inconvenient times (like when trying to boot the machine, for example). To fix this, I added the following line to /etc/udev/links.conf:
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+ M md0 b 9 0
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+And then restarted udev. This should apply for Debian Sarge too.
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CategoryOperatingSystem CategorySystemAdministration
See Also: RaidOnLinux
