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Re: setting RAID driver options on bootup



 On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 14:31 -0500, Tom Metro wrote: 
> On an Ubuntu Fiesty system I'm attempting to set some custom md driver 
> (RAID) setting via /etc/sysctl.conf: 
> 
>    dev.raid.speed_limit_min = 100 
> 
> but on bootup it reports that it doesn't recognize 
> dev.raid.speed_limit_min (and the setting doesn't change), 
[...] 
> it looks like it is dynamically loaded. 
> 
> The only reference I see to "raid" or "md" in /etc/modules or 
> /etc/modprobe.d/ is: 
> alias block-major-9-*  md 
> 
> in /etc/modprobe.d/aliases. Perhaps a Udev hook might be the place to 
> make the sysctl call. 

Not a clue why things aren't working or what a fix might be, but 
typically, software raid modules are included in your initrd and 
insmod'd by the init script in the initrd. At least, that's how it is in 
Fedora-land. 


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