From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jes Sorensen Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] add --initrd argument to mdadm/mdmon Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:16:16 +0100 Message-ID: <4F15D710.7080104@redhat.com> References: <1326797330-4488-1-git-send-email-Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com> <4F15D29C.7070504@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4F15D29C.7070504@redhat.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Doug Ledford Cc: neilb@suse.de, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, kay@redhat.com, harald@redhat.com, lpoetter@redhat.com, mschmidt@redhat.com List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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. > > 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? > > Ditto for dracut, do we know what the minimum version of dracut is > before it will use the --initrd parameter on its mdadm calls? 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. If you think it makes sense, I can add documentation for it. 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. Cheers, Jes