[mythtv-users] RAID: full disk or partition (was: Question re: available SATA ports and linux software RAID)

Wed Apr 27 14:23:13 UTC 2011

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 5:13 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 27 April 2011 18:11, Robin Hill <myth at robinhill.me.uk> wrote:
>
>> Did you recreate the initrd (as that will contain its own copy of the
>> mdadm.conf file)?
>
> ahh.... now that sounds like an answer :)
>
> No I didn't.. Need to check on how to do so...

The problem with this solution is if you boot from a livecd or other
media that does not have your mdadm.conf it can force the /dev/sdd1 to
be failed if /dev/sdd is detected first.

John