Date:	Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:33:04 -0300
From:	Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@...hat.com>
To:	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
Subject: Re: let md auto-detect 128+ raid members, fix potential race condition

On Jul 31, 2006, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@...hat.com> wrote:

>> mdadm --assemble --scan --homehost='<system>' --auto-update-homehost \
>> --auto=yes --run

>> in your initrd, having set the hostname correctly first.  It might do
>> exactly what you want.

> I'll give it a try some time tomorrow, since I won't turn on that
> noisy box today any more; my daughter is already asleep :-)

But then, I could use my own desktop to test it :-)

FWIW, here's the patch for Fedora rawhide's mkinitrd that worked for
me.  I figured even without --homehost it worked fine, even without
HOMEHOST set in mdadm.conf.

I hope copying mdadm.conf to initrd won't ever hurt, can you think of
any case in which it would?


--- /sbin/mkinitrd	2006-07-26 15:43:41.000000000 -0300
+++ /tmp/mkinitrd	2006-08-01 00:06:14.000000000 -0300
@@ -1240,10 +1240,19 @@
 emitdms
 
 if [ -n "$raiddevices" ]; then
+  if test -f /sbin/mdadm.static; then
+    if test -f /etc/mdadm.conf; then
+      inst /etc/mdadm.conf "$MNTIMAGE/etc/mdadm.conf"
+    fi
+    inst /sbin/mdadm.static "$MNTIMAGE/sbin/mdadm"
+    emit "mkdir /dev/md"
+    emit "mdadm --quiet --assemble --scan --auto-update-homehost --auto=yes --run"
+  else
     for dev in $raiddevices; do
         cp -a /dev/${dev} $MNTIMAGE/dev
         emit "raidautorun /dev/${dev}"
     done
+  fi
 fi
 
 if [ -n "$vg_list" ]; then


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