dmraid & mkinitrd under F10 x86_64 (No Puppies Harmed)

[Robert L Cochran]

Charles Crayne wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:05:17 -0500
> "Raymond C. Rodgers" <sinful622 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> No other suggestions?
>>     
>
> Although I have used software raid for several years now, I am not an
> expert in the subject. In particular, I have never needed to use
> mkinitrd, because I do not boot from the raid device. Nor have I used
> the dmraid program because, on the few occasions where I have had to
> invervene with the process, I have used mdadm. However, since none of
> the other responses have been useful, perhaps something in my own
> experience might help.
>
> I do not have any of the raid partitions in my fstab,
> nor do I have /dev/mapper. What I do have is /dev/md0. The individual
> partitions have the raid flag turned on in the partition table, and the
> kernel creates the md0 device, which is then mounted as specified in
> fstab.
>   
The OP wants to automatically partitions. I thought you do that either
through autofs or fstab.

Bob