Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

From: David Balazic (david.balazic@uni-mb.si)
Date: Thu Jan 18 2001 - 06:01:29 EST


Tim Fletcher <tim@parrswood.manchester.sch.uk> wrote :

> > How does MD/RAID0 know which array should be /dev/md0? What if you had a
> > second array on /dev/hdb and /dev/hdd, would that become /dev/md0 (assuming
> > it had a kernel/boot sector)?
>
> /etc/raidtab specifies which drives belong in which array, but I only have
> hda and hdc so I can't really answer the question

What happens if /dev/md0 is /dev/sda and /dev/sdc ( the system also has
sdb )
and sda fails or is removed ?
the old sdb will now be sda and old-sdc will be sdb.
md0 will look into sda , which is now the non-md disk , and
sdc , which doesn't exists any more ???

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David Balazic
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