From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gabor Gombas Subject: Re: Linux mdadm superblock question. Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:16:27 +0100 Message-ID: <20100214211627.GA15313@twister.home> References: <201002140251.59668.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <4877c76c1002132002s20d942c3i7cee5418cdcf369c@mail.gmail.com> <201002141940.35716.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <4B7846B2.1030303@anonymous.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B7846B2.1030303@anonymous.org.uk> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: John Robinson Cc: Volker Armin Hemmann , Michael Evans , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 06:53:38PM +0000, John Robinson wrote: > True, but afaik every distro uses an initrd/initramfs and bundles > tools making it easy to manage and customise them, so what's the > problem? Distro provided initramfs generators have a bad habit assuming you patch/build your kernel like the distro does. If you want to use a vanilla kernel with different things built in/built as modules/not built at all, then you can get nasty surprises, and debugging can be rather painful. My current view is if you use a distro kernel, then you should also use an initramfs (in fact you do not have a choice). But if you want to build your own kernel, then you should get rid of the initramfs. Gabor