From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Doug Ledford Subject: Re: Time to deprecate old RAID formats? Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:48:40 -0400 Message-ID: <1193762920.10336.511.camel@firewall.xsintricity.com> References: <20071026095417.GC32550@percy.comedia.it> <1193424779.10336.287.camel@firewall.xsintricity.com> <20071026223046.GB8210@boogie.lpds.sztaki.hu> <1193531160.10336.397.camel@firewall.xsintricity.com> <20071028141336.GC22861@percy.comedia.it> <1193593675.10336.404.camel@firewall.xsintricity.com> <20071029084118.GC15475@percy.comedia.it> <1193671853.10336.428.camel@firewall.xsintricity.com> <20071029214416.GB24635@percy.comedia.it> <1193699142.10336.503.camel@firewall.xsintricity.com> <20071030065549.GA13545@percy.comedia.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-eUcFk1HbzD8y8jZsGKgK" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20071030065549.GA13545@percy.comedia.it> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Luca Berra Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids --=-eUcFk1HbzD8y8jZsGKgK Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --=20 Doug Ledford GPG KeyID: CFBFF194 http://people.redhat.com/dledford Infiniband specific RPMs available at http://people.redhat.com/dledford/Infiniband --=-eUcFk1HbzD8y8jZsGKgK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBHJ2BoTzP9PM7pjw8RAiCUAJ4h5phxuh30h4ZnVuhSdyfnmPf9+wCfX1BI RI6LEOuoNn5u6dZUt+18YIU= =Kr3e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-eUcFk1HbzD8y8jZsGKgK--