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: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:38:06 +0100 Message-ID: <20080315123806.GA20418@rap.rap.dk> 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> <20080315114912.GA11426@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: <20080315114912.GA11426@percy.comedia.it> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 12:49:13PM +0100, Luca Berra wrote: > 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 >=20 > you mean cd4? I mean Corporate Server 4 - cs4. > >>>kernel, and I hacked the mkinitrd to have it generate mdadm.conf e= tc > >>>- it did not at all look at this. I can send you my patches, but t= hey > >>> are in no way clean. > >>mkinitrd in 2006.0 did generate mdadm.conf and use it, so i don't k= now > >>what your patches were doing. > > > >the code to generate mdadm.conf was not activated. I made some patch= es > >to force raid code generation. >=20 > really? > if this is the case you should have submitted a bug report. It is possible that I do. I would like to find out what to do first, however. > >>>There was no mention of raid10 in the code either. > >>yes support for raid10 was added after 2006.0 release > >> > >>>I thied to contact Erik Troan - the main author of mkinitrd (and l= ots of > >>>other stuff:-) - but got a bouncing message for his redhat address= =2E > >>i think Erik does not maintain mkinitrd any more, it is quite an ol= d > >>software. > > > >OK, who maintains it now, and is mkinitrd still a viable - perhaps t= he > >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 cod= ebase,=20 > maintained by me. > the upcoming 2008.1 will use a version derived from mkinitrd 6 codeba= se, > maintained by Olivier Blin. >=20 > >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 >=20 > >Could I use the latest mkinitrd with my 2006.0 system? > i don't think so >=20 > >>>And I was about to report this om qa.mandriva.com - but it seems t= hat 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? >=20 > No. Thanks for your answers.=20 I filed a feature request for cooker on harddrake2 and drakx. I think mkinitrd is actually used by the kernel, with a make install. Is that true? Then mkinitrd is a general script that is used on almost all linux systems. So I can assume that this is available when I write = a howto. 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