First of all, thanks for the great support you show the Linux community. Its' people like you that made Linux an entirely viable alternative to M$.
I am running ubuntu 9.04. Until recently I used the mdadm version that exists in the ubuntu repositories, with perfect success. However, since that version is fairly old (2.6, I think), I decided to install the latest version 3.0.2.
On a freshly formatted system with no mdadm I downloaded http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/mdadm-3.0.2.tar.gz, unzipped it and run the "sudo make" and "sudo make install" commands. According to mdadm --version, I succesfuly installed version 3.0.2 of the program. I was also successful on creating and mounting a fresh raid 5 array.
However, the installation didn't create either the /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf or the /etc/mdadm.conf file, where I need to specify the array details so that it is assembled during boot time.
I manually created (with gedit) the mdadm.conf file in both locations and added the "DEVICE partitions" line and a line with the result from mdadm --examine --scan
Even though this was enough on the old version of mdadm for auto assemble during the boot sequence (so that /etc/fstab could mount /dev/md0), on version 3.0.2 it made no difference at all, as if the mdadm I compiled and installed manually wouldn't read the mdadm.config file, neither on /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf or on /etc/mdadm.conf
Is there anything I could do to address this problem? Any way to permanently point the mdadm to its mdadm.conf file? is there an mdadm.conf file created on some other location on the disk, where I can add the array information?
Thanks in advance
Kind regards
Angelos Kyritsis.
