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[Chris Dombroski <cdombroski AT icanttype.org>]

Quoting Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>:

> The {raidtab,mdadm}.conf is used by the RAID tools to setup /dev/md*
> during mountall.sh. Our init scripts do everything else. The only
> problem/issue I know of is if you want to have your root partition in
> a RAID setup. This takes more magic (and an initrd) than I wanted to
> spend time on, so only /home is in a RAID.

If raid support is built into the kernel, and the partitions are  
marked as "Linux Raid Autodetect" (0xFD), then the raid devices will  
be discovered and useable before / is mounted. Then all you have to  
worry about is making sure mdX devices are created/available to mount  
the rest of your partitions.

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