On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Shawn Fertch wrote:
> From my understanding, this line in the /etc/raidtab is required for it
> to be read and initialized on bootup:
> 
> persistent-superblock       1

<..>

> After bootup, I can initialize the /dev/md4 device and then mount
> filesystems by hand and it works.  If I wanted to, I could throw it into
> the rc.local script, but that's a hack and not the way I want to do it.

Are the partition types 0xfd for all drives? What kernel version is 
running on this box?

Even if the kernel doesn't autodetect it, most distros will run a
raidtools init script on startup that will fire up the arrays.

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