From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Bowler Subject: Re: Linux mdadm superblock question. Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:10:16 -0500 Message-ID: <20100217181016.GA14983@emergent.ellipticsemi.com> References: <201002140251.59668.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <4877c76c1002132002s20d942c3i7cee5418cdcf369c@mail.gmail.com> <201002141940.35716.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <4B7AD35E.7000405@tmr.com> <20100217130103.3ca65ef3@notabene.brown> <4B7BB927.5000305@grumpydevil.homelinux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: david@lang.hm Cc: Kyle Moffett , Rudy Zijlstra , Neil Brown , "Mr. James W. Laferriere" , Bill Davidsen , Volker Armin Hemmann , Michael Evans , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 09:41 Wed 17 Feb , david@lang.hm wrote: > for a distro that is trying to make one kernel image run on every > possible type of hardware features like initramfs (and udev, modeules, > etc) are wonderful. > > however for people who run systems that are known ahead of time and > static (and who build their own kernels instead of just relying on the > distro default kernel), all of this is unnessesary complication, which > leaves more room for problems to creep in. Such people can easily construct an initramfs containing busybox and mdadm with a shell script hardcoded to mount their root fs and run switch_root. It's a ~10 minute jobbie that only needs to be done once. -- Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)