From: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
To: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Cc: martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org>, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Michal Marek <mmarek@novell.com>,
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Subject: Re: RFC - device names and mdadm with some reference to udev.
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:10:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081027161000.GG17300@skl-net.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1225120416.4845.128.camel@firewall.xsintricity.com>
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On 11:13, Doug Ledford wrote:
> > I would really like to have a clear separation of competencies.
> > Ideally, mdadm never creates any devices but leaves it all to udev,
> > and all configuration about alternate names ("symlinks") is done in
> > the udev rules file.
>
> This would then require that we have a working udev in our initrd
> images. It would greatly increase the complexity of early booting as a
> result.
Given that the initramfs usually contains busybox, one can also using
mdev. It's much simpler than udev and it's good enough if the only
thing you want to do is mounting the root partition that resides on
a software raid array.
Andre
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-27 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-26 22:56 RFC - device names and mdadm with some reference to udev Neil Brown
2008-10-27 8:22 ` martin f krafft
2008-10-27 15:13 ` Doug Ledford
2008-10-27 16:10 ` Andre Noll [this message]
2008-10-27 16:37 ` Kay Sievers
2008-10-27 16:59 ` martin f krafft
2008-10-27 18:31 ` Kay Sievers
2008-10-28 6:21 ` Luca Berra
2008-10-27 17:24 ` Doug Ledford
2008-10-27 23:36 ` Neil Brown
2008-10-29 18:49 ` Doug Ledford
2008-10-28 6:32 ` Luca Berra
2008-10-28 9:42 ` occasional bitmap was " David Greaves
2008-10-27 17:30 ` Andre Noll
2008-10-27 16:13 ` Kay Sievers
2008-10-27 22:37 ` Neil Brown
2008-10-27 22:51 ` Kay Sievers
2008-10-27 23:56 ` Neil Brown
2008-10-28 0:20 ` Kay Sievers
2008-10-28 6:17 ` Luca Berra
2008-10-27 12:41 ` Kay Sievers
2008-10-27 13:23 ` David Lethe
2008-10-27 23:27 ` Neil Brown
2008-10-27 23:48 ` David Lethe
2008-10-27 13:24 ` Andre Noll
2008-10-27 14:20 ` Kay Sievers
2008-10-27 23:23 ` Neil Brown
2008-10-28 0:03 ` Kay Sievers
2008-10-28 0:43 ` Neil Brown
2008-10-28 1:16 ` Kay Sievers
2008-10-28 1:44 ` Neil Brown
2008-10-28 1:52 ` Kay Sievers
2008-10-28 1:54 ` Kay Sievers
2008-10-31 20:54 ` Debian and udev (was: RFC - device names and mdadm with some reference to udev.) martin f krafft
2008-10-31 23:08 ` Bernd Schubert
2008-10-29 8:56 ` RFC - device names and mdadm with some reference to udev Gabor Gombas
2008-10-31 20:49 ` mdp devices on Debian (was: RFC - device names and mdadm with some reference to udev.) martin f krafft
2008-10-30 17:18 ` RFC - device names and mdadm with some reference to udev Doug Ledford
2008-10-31 9:45 ` Neil Brown
2008-11-03 9:29 ` Gabor Gombas
2008-11-03 10:33 ` Kay Sievers
2008-11-03 11:58 ` Gabor Gombas
2008-11-03 12:11 ` Kay Sievers
2008-11-03 14:34 ` Doug Ledford
2008-11-03 15:20 ` Dan Williams
2008-11-07 6:13 ` Neil Brown
2008-11-02 13:47 ` Luca Berra
[not found] <dledford@redhat.com>
2008-10-31 1:02 ` greg
2008-10-31 9:18 ` Neil Brown
2008-11-02 13:52 ` Luca Berra
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2008-11-04 15:36 greg
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