From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Berra Subject: Re: software for making initrd's with raid support Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:49:13 +0100 Message-ID: <20080315114912.GA11426@percy.comedia.it> References: <20080312235641.GA7109@rap.rap.dk> <20080313111538.GB4229@percy.comedia.it> <20080313130042.GA11858@rap.rap.dk> <20080314081516.GB12274@percy.comedia.it> <20080314133045.GB13616@rap.rap.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080314133045.GB13616@rap.rap.dk> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Keld =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rn?= Simonsen Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 02:30:45PM +0100, Keld J=F8rn Simonsen wrote: >> >Good! I was working on a mandriva professional 2006 system 2.6.12 >> 2006.0 is EOL > >2006.0 professional is maintained to 2011 you mean cd4? >> >kernel, and I hacked the mkinitrd to have it generate mdadm.conf et= c >> >- it did not at all look at this. I can send you my patches, but th= ey >> > are in no way clean. >> mkinitrd in 2006.0 did generate mdadm.conf and use it, so i don't kn= ow >> what your patches were doing. > >the code to generate mdadm.conf was not activated. I made some patches >to force raid code generation. really? if this is the case you should have submitted a bug report. >> >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 lo= ts 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? mkinitrd is maintained by RedHat (http://www.redhat.com/) afaik the person responsible for that package is Peter Jones. Mandriva up to 2008.0 used a version derived from mkinitrd 4.2.17 codeb= ase, maintained by me. the upcoming 2008.1 will use a version derived from mkinitrd 6 codebase= , maintained by Olivier Blin. >Where is the latest mkinitrd available from? the redhat version is avaliable from any rawhide mirror http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/development/ The mandriva version from any cooker mirror http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/CookerMirrors >Could I use the latest mkinitrd with my 2006.0 system? i don't think so >> >And I was about to report this om qa.mandriva.com - but it seems th= at 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? No. --=20 Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it Communication Media & Services S.r.l. /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \ -- 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