Re: boot time autoassembly: how come it works?

[Michal Soltys <soltys@xxxxxxxx>]

Jules Bean wrote:
> I'm trying to understand the boot sequence of new kernels (2.6.24, 
> initramfs) better and I really don't understand how the RAID assembly 
> works.
>
> The docs (md.txt) say that auto-assembly only occurs if the RAID arrays 
> are marked as 'RAID autodetect' aka partition type 0xfd. On the other 
> hand mdadm needs mdadm.conf to get going.

Initramfs is a tiny linux. It (usually) either has simple mdassamble or 
mdassemble.auto, or full-blown mdadm - and when you use those, partition 
type is ignored.

Partitions with 0xfd relate to [deprecated in times of early userpsace] 
method of assembling the arrays by the kernel itself, before any 
userspace code (initramfs/rd, your system) takes action.
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