Re: [PATCH 2/4] Add --initrd argument to mdadm

[Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>]

On 01/18/12 17:43, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>> We should tell to mdadm for boot device assembly to be prepared for
>> > fs pivot when reshape is in progress. We can do this by specifying 2
>> > options in command line, but in real world "someone will forget about
>> > something", so I think '--iinitrd' can have '--freeze-reshape'
>> > functionality also /without freeze-reshape option removal for
>> > separate use when raid will not be a boot device/. As I wrote before
>> > it needs to set one variable during command line parsing in mdadm.c
>> > only.
> If there is already a --freeze-reshape option, then I think it is better
> to have the boot scripts set that explicitly. The initramfs stage isn't
> really something we expect users or admins to mess with manually, so it
> ought to work for that. However if there is no option for this, and I
> just need to set the variable when detecting --initrd, then I can add
> that to the patchset no problem.

I guess I should add here, that I am not strongly opposed to setting
freeze_reshape for initrd. I am just wary of setting multiple flags
magically without it being obvious to the user/admin.

Cheers,
Jes