From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Zeno Davatz Subject: Re: raid1: module or compiled in? Date: 07 May 2003 18:03:40 +0200 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1052323420.1551.116.camel@zrr> References: <1052320882.649.99.camel@zrr> <3EB92AE6.91F9FED4@SteelEye.com> Reply-To: zdavatz@generika.cc Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3EB92AE6.91F9FED4@SteelEye.com> To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 17:48, Paul Clements wrote: > Zeno Davatz wrote: > > > I am a Debian Woody 2.4.20 user and got the following question: > > > > If I want the software raid to work do I need to compile it into the > > kernel or does it suffice if I just load the support as module? > > md generally does have to be compiled in...the raid personality modules > (raid1, raid5, etc.) can be compiled as modules... more below... > > > I was reading in the software-RAID Howto that the support should NOT be > > loaded as Module. Why would that be? > > Were they talking about _md_ needing to be compiled in? Because it has > to be compiled into the kernel if you want to use persistent superblocks > and/or use it for your root partition. I have patches against 2.4 and > 2.5 to fix this md problem, BTW, if anyone wants them...I posted the 2.5 > one a while back... Ok, thanks. This is useful. In that case I must patch the kernel with your patch or I must compile md into the kernel. Thanks for the hint. Zeno > -- > Paul