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From: martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
Subject: Re: (boot time consequences of) Linux mdadm superblock question.
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:22:41 +1300
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also sprach Daniel Reurich <daniel@centurion.net.nz> [2010.02.18.1817 +1300=
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> > This is a great idea. While I would still have to store that UUID in
> > the initrd, as you say, it's 99% likely to remain constant, and when
> > it changes, it's 99% likely that the admin is doing something that
> > will require more work, so we can resort to 100% hoping that s/he
> > knows what she's doing.
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> It'd already be there if they used it in /etc/fstab.  (I wish they would
> as it would solve a whole lot of other media portability problems as
> well, but that's another issue.)

/etc/fstab is not copied into the initrd.

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