From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: klibc list <klibc@zytor.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Exporting which partitions to md-configure
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:52:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43DEB4B8.5040607@zytor.com> (raw)
I'm putting the final touches on kinit, which is the user-space
replacement (based on klibc) for the whole in-kernel root-mount complex.
Pretty much the one thing remaining -- other than lots of testing --
is to handle automatically mounted md devices. In order to do that,
without adding userspace versions of all the paritition code (which may
be a future change, but a pretty big one) it would be good if the
partition flag to auto-configure RAID was available in userspace,
presumably through sysfs.
Any feeling how best to do that? My current thinking is to export a
"flags" entry in addition to the current ones, presumably based on
"struct parsed_partitions->parts[].flags" (fs/partitions/check.h), which
seems to be what causes md_autodetect_dev() to be called.
Note that this should be available even if md isn't compiled into the
kernel, thus making it possible to load md as a module before running
kinit, or to make the equivalent of the kernel mounting sequence from a
totally runtime user tool.
-hpa
next reply other threads:[~2006-01-31 0:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-31 0:52 H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-01-31 1:10 ` Exporting which partitions to md-configure Neil Brown
2006-01-31 1:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-01-31 2:01 ` Neil Brown
2006-01-31 2:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-02-06 1:46 ` Neil Brown
2006-02-06 3:29 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-02-07 2:47 ` [klibc] " H. Peter Anvin
2006-02-07 9:03 ` Neil Brown
2006-02-07 10:43 ` Luca Berra
2006-02-07 15:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-02-07 16:47 ` Luca Berra
2006-02-07 16:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-02-07 17:03 ` Luca Berra
2006-01-31 6:49 ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-01-31 1:43 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-01-31 1:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-01-31 2:01 ` Neil Brown
2006-01-31 2:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-01-31 6:42 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-01-31 3:21 ` [klibc] " Greg KH
2006-01-31 3:24 ` Greg KH
2006-01-31 6:53 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-01-31 3:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
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