Description of problem: On bootup the raid portion of the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit doesn't initialize any mdadm created arrays from /etc/mdadm.conf. Although raidtools can do this, via a raidtab entry, I am unable to get it to automatically failback when using multipath. I need to have the auto failback functionality without having to manually failback the paths. For now I have added the following in my /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit to make mdadm work on boot. update_boot_stage RCraid if [ -f /etc/mdadm.conf ] then /sbin/mdadm -As fi if [ -f /etc/raidtab ]; then Any chance on adding something similar to the initscripts package? Thanks Brett
There is no proper mdadm support in RHEL3. There are plans to have mdadm support implemented in the next release.