Re: question on how to (correctly) build an initrd for a root disk on a RAID1

[Tru Huynh <tru@pasteur.fr>]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:49:27PM -0400, Joe Landman wrote:
...
> Replacing this mkinitrd with 6.0.19-4 (by doing lots of rpmbuild 's
> against FC8/9 packages and installing), we did in fact see the
> mdadm.conf get explicitly added in during the mkinitrd.
> 
> /sbin/mdadm -> /tmp/initrd.Jz3686/sbin/mdadm
> /etc/mdadm.conf -> /tmp/initrd.Jz3686/etc/mdadm.conf
> 
> Upon reboot, it works.
> 
...
> 
> While this works, this is not a solution I want to hand to our
> users/customers.  Could someone toss me a pointer as to who owns
> mkinitrd at RHEL/Centos so I can report this?  Basically this is not a
> linux-raid bug, but a bug in the mkinitrd assumptions (or possibly
> something that needs to be built into the kernel which is not
> explicitly indicated in mkinitrd).
http://bugzilla.redhat.com would be the first step since CentOS
is rebuilding from upstream (bugs included), although 
it could provided it's own features in the extras
repository.
http://bugs.centos.org could also be used for RFE in CentOS extras
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories has a list
of "recommended" repositories.
One caveat, I am not sure that this bug will ever be fixed
since rebuilding a custom kernel is not really supported 
on both distributions.

Cheers,

Tru
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