From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andre Noll Subject: Re: RFC - device names and mdadm with some reference to udev. Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:10:00 +0100 Message-ID: <20081027161000.GG17300@skl-net.de> References: <18692.62860.863118.727187@notabene.brown> <20081027082257.GB1801@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net> <1225120416.4845.128.camel@firewall.xsintricity.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="MrRUTeZlqqNo1jQ9" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1225120416.4845.128.camel@firewall.xsintricity.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Doug Ledford Cc: martin f krafft , Neil Brown , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Michal Marek , Kay Sievers List-Id: linux-raid.ids --MrRUTeZlqqNo1jQ9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 > 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 --=20 The only person who always got his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe --MrRUTeZlqqNo1jQ9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJBefXWto1QDEAkw8RAmFuAKCks6CDcamEsdhg9klviG9KlNsxvgCglcCk XyDr653eN5apowTi5rD7Iy8= =xi88 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --MrRUTeZlqqNo1jQ9--