Re: boot time autoassembly: how come it works?

[Jules Bean <jules@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bryan Mesich wrote:
> I'm not sure I've seen a system auto assemble an array when the
> partitions were not set to 0xfd.  My bet is that you have a
> mdadm.conf file in your initrd and that the init script is
> starting the array in user space via mdadm.

Yes, there is an mdadm.conf and a full copy of mdadm in my initramfs.

However the mdadm.conf is wrong. weird.

It has the wrong number of devices listed for both arrays, and the wrong 
UUIDs. Somehow that must be close enough to work.

Jules
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