From: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
To: Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Time to deprecate old RAID formats?
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:48:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1193762920.10336.511.camel@firewall.xsintricity.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071030065549.GA13545@percy.comedia.it>
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On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 07:55 +0100, Luca Berra wrote:
> Well it might be a matter of personal preference, but i would prefer
> an initrd doing just the minumum necessary to mount the root filesystem
> (and/or activating resume from a swap device), and leaving all the rest
> to initscripts, then an initrd that tries to do everything.
The initrd does exactly that. The rescan for superblocks does not
happen in initrd or mkinitrd, it must be done manually. The code in
mkinitrd uses the mdadm.conf file as it stands, but in the initrd image
it doesn't start all the arrays, just the needed arrays to get booted
into your / partition.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-30 16:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-19 14:34 Time to deprecate old RAID formats? John Stoffel
2007-10-19 15:09 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-10-19 15:46 ` John Stoffel
2007-10-19 16:15 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-19 16:35 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-10-19 16:38 ` John Stoffel
2007-10-19 16:40 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-10-19 16:44 ` John Stoffel
2007-10-19 16:45 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-10-19 17:04 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-19 17:05 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-10-19 17:23 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-19 17:47 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-10-20 18:38 ` Michael Tokarev
2007-10-20 20:02 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-19 22:43 ` chunk size (was Re: Time to deprecate old RAID formats?) Michal Soltys
2007-10-20 13:29 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-23 19:21 ` Michal Soltys
2007-10-24 0:14 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-19 17:11 ` Time to deprecate old RAID formats? Doug Ledford
2007-10-19 18:39 ` John Stoffel
2007-10-19 21:23 ` Iustin Pop
2007-10-19 21:42 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-20 7:53 ` Iustin Pop
2007-10-20 13:11 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-26 9:54 ` Luca Berra
2007-10-26 16:22 ` Gabor Gombas
2007-10-26 17:06 ` Gabor Gombas
2007-10-27 10:34 ` Luca Berra
2007-10-26 18:52 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-26 22:30 ` Gabor Gombas
2007-10-28 0:26 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-28 14:13 ` Luca Berra
2007-10-28 17:47 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-29 8:41 ` Luca Berra
2007-10-29 15:30 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-29 21:44 ` Luca Berra
2007-10-29 23:05 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-30 3:10 ` Neil Brown
2007-10-30 6:55 ` Luca Berra
2007-10-30 16:48 ` Doug Ledford [this message]
2007-10-27 8:00 ` Luca Berra
2007-10-27 20:09 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-28 13:46 ` Luca Berra
2007-10-23 23:09 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-23 23:03 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-24 0:09 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-24 23:55 ` Neil Brown
2007-10-25 0:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-25 8:09 ` David Greaves
2007-10-26 6:16 ` Neil Brown
2007-10-26 14:18 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-26 18:41 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-26 22:20 ` Gabor Gombas
2007-10-26 22:58 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-27 11:11 ` Luca Berra
2007-10-27 15:20 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-28 0:18 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-29 0:44 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-27 21:11 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-29 0:48 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-30 3:25 ` Neil Brown
2007-11-02 12:31 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-25 7:01 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-25 14:49 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-25 15:00 ` David Greaves
2007-10-26 5:56 ` Neil Brown
2007-10-24 14:00 ` John Stoffel
2007-10-24 15:18 ` Mike Snitzer
2007-10-24 15:32 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-20 14:09 ` Michael Tokarev
2007-10-20 14:24 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-20 14:52 ` John Stoffel
2007-10-20 15:07 ` Iustin Pop
2007-10-20 15:36 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-20 18:24 ` Michael Tokarev
2007-10-22 20:39 ` John Stoffel
2007-10-22 22:29 ` Michael Tokarev
2007-10-24 0:42 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-24 9:40 ` David Greaves
2007-10-24 20:22 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-25 16:29 ` Doug Ledford
2007-11-01 21:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-02 15:50 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-24 0:36 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-23 23:18 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-19 16:34 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-10-23 23:19 ` Bill Davidsen
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