From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keld =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rn?= Simonsen Subject: Re: software for making initrd's with raid support Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:30:45 +0100 Message-ID: <20080314133045.GB13616@rap.rap.dk> References: <20080312235641.GA7109@rap.rap.dk> <20080313111538.GB4229@percy.comedia.it> <20080313130042.GA11858@rap.rap.dk> <20080314081516.GB12274@percy.comedia.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080314081516.GB12274@percy.comedia.it> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 09:15:16AM +0100, Luca Berra wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 02:00:42PM +0100, Keld J=F8rn Simonsen wrote: > >On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:15:39PM +0100, Luca Berra wrote: > >>On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:56:41AM +0100, Keld J=F8rn Simonsen wrot= e: > >>>Hi > >>> > >>>I have been looking at making my system working with raid, and boo= ting > >>>from raid. I succeded, but I had to hack a number of things, inclu= ding > >>>making a new initrd by hand. > >>> > >>>I used mkinitrd, but it did not treat sw raid, only in the md sens= e. > >>>this is a redhat/mandriva/pclinuxos(keldix thing, I wonder if it a= lso > >>>used in the dbian/ubuntu world. > >> > >>could you please explain what you mean in the above sentence, > >>i have being maintaining mandriva mkinitrd packages for some years,= and > >>would really love to know. > > > >Good! I was working on a mandriva professional 2006 system 2.6.12 > 2006.0 is EOL 2006.0 professional is maintained to 2011 > >kernel, and I hacked the mkinitrd to have it generate mdadm.conf etc > >- it did not at all look at this. I can send you my patches, but the= y > > are in no way clean. > mkinitrd in 2006.0 did generate mdadm.conf and use it, so i don't kno= w > what your patches were doing. the code to generate mdadm.conf was not activated. I made some patches to force raid code generation. > >There was no mention of raid10 in the code either. > yes support for raid10 was added after 2006.0 release >=20 > >I thied to contact Erik Troan - the main author of mkinitrd (and lot= s of > >other stuff:-) - but got a bouncing message for his redhat address. > i think Erik does not maintain mkinitrd any more, it is quite an old > software. OK, who maintains it now, and is mkinitrd still a viable - perhaps the best - way to make initrd's? Where is the latest mkinitrd available from? Could I use the latest mkinitrd with my 2006.0 system? > >And I was about to report this om qa.mandriva.com - but it seems tha= t I > >already made contact! > if you want a bug fixed on mandriva please send a bug report on > qa.mandriva.com, same applies for redhat/fedora. > If you have questions to ask, feel free. Is raid10,f2 supported under the latest haddrake2? Best regards keld -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html