From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: NeilBrown Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] add --initrd argument to mdadm/mdmon Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:25:33 +1100 Message-ID: <20120122222533.42ba46b2@notabene.brown> References: <1326797330-4488-1-git-send-email-Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com> <4F15D29C.7070504@redhat.com> <4F15D710.7080104@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/mwoNHyHnoV_W3neZVQ7dqq6"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4F15D710.7080104@redhat.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jes Sorensen Cc: Doug Ledford , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, kay@redhat.com, harald@redhat.com, lpoetter@redhat.com, mschmidt@redhat.com List-Id: linux-raid.ids --Sig_/mwoNHyHnoV_W3neZVQ7dqq6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:16:16 +0100 Jes Sorensen wrote: > On 01/17/12 20:57, Doug Ledford wrote: > > Patch set looks reasonable to me, although you missed adding the new > > option to the mdadm man page. > >=20 > > Do we have a specific systemd version for which we know that --initrd is > > needed, or a version before which it is the wrong thing to do? > >=20 > > Ditto for dracut, do we know what the minimum version of dracut is > > before it will use the --initrd parameter on its mdadm calls? >=20 > I actually did this on purpose - or rather I left it out of the help > message on purpose. The option is really only meant to be used by > dracut/systemd, it doesn't make much sense for normal users/admins to > play with it directly. You left it out of the help message for mdmon, but included it in the help message for mdadm! >=20 > If you think it makes sense, I can add documentation for it. I think it should be in the help messages and definitely should be in the m= an page. If you fix that up and the other little things I've identified, then I'll apply it .... providing we have a name that I can live with. Thanks, NeilBrown >=20 > Right now I believe dracut isn't ready to call mdadm with --initrd, > however systemd in rawhide is aware of the '@' hack. I am not sure of > the specific version, but we should document the final minimum versions > once it's all sorted so all distros know which versions to pick. >=20 > Cheers, > Jes --Sig_/mwoNHyHnoV_W3neZVQ7dqq6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUBTxvyLTnsnt1WYoG5AQJAIBAAll0cFCNLJX/RgsmklW+60zYKhQWKWwno BR2KdYj6q8cEk3UonBY33bllpC2xcWYnKe36n77F5L4eMt4SPDIhB8z1EG6/QJjA tt7uWbWjENqh0R/ufOu9HCYDXxxNFlWKAFsSekU/bgTaVlXTjsPKzTRhAGNY5xRZ W6MP262qpNMDxNGNbDlWHeYDLxp/wgQzDQBv0L/iqMFKPZaHU1g5pyt4VlBshIML bVkPysLGMYyNcppsqr6aZt8Kd3KIK/GDYcB26NOx4VEn0EphT9mv4Eta0G6trWO9 IthQnEIAzcMNlhb485AB4WuPuifSzFJtQ1VEn+HIW7m717D0QPbCNfWmhxBuSt4H w54lWBHFRvXpu+EbFOxo+32g4Joe3IyHpGquPMZFeGwNdclJrzlMXbE5vlOmjc/s gZzSFrB1XddJn3FqGzeSvPJI62zotulwCwUgZtdXzWX6jcyBWz1W/WryQsnJiTIr Bc+FyZi8PfchzAwNwhvX7ePGJCSs9J+WScWVY+Im37Bxb6TNn6KOcbuTRCNu30yz UKt6+0tE21wcL1hsjKeBi7j/5KPxJc4dzjMNaajVXXWCwdf9C1Rnx7vv6kqne6EZ 2IpXNde64BUntix7K6qErkXcK1nnuDXeWzP9zh17Qd1K3ur76BE4pgAqIMaCmFjy U5L7sT9OIwk= =w2TE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/mwoNHyHnoV_W3neZVQ7dqq6--