From: John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk>
To: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>,
neilb@suse.de, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, kay@redhat.com,
harald@redhat.com, lpoetter@redhat.com, mschmidt@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] add --preboot argument to mdadm/mdmon
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:04:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F1D9308.7040806@anonymous.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F1D905C.1050300@redhat.com>
On 23/01/2012 16:52, Doug Ledford wrote:
> On 01/23/2012 11:39 AM, Jes Sorensen wrote:
[...]
>> Kay suggested --preroot on irc - would that do the job? I think that is
>> a bit better than --offroot.
>
> I'd say preroot is better than preboot for sure. I think I still like
> offroot more than preroot though.
For what it's worth, as a moderately experienced user rather than an
expert like you guys, I'd vote for this - I nearly suggested something
like this earlier in the thread, but didn't because I thought I must
have misunderstood, but Doug's explanation has just confirmed that I had
it right in the first place - the mdmon invoked with --this-new-option
is started from the initrd, in advance of the real root filesystem being
mounted, but hangs around until after the real root filesystem has gone
again, so that for example --postroot would make just as much sense as
--preroot, and neither is as good as --offroot.
Cheers,
John.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-23 17:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-23 11:18 [PATCH v2 0/4] add --preboot argument to mdadm/mdmon Jes.Sorensen
2012-01-23 11:18 ` [PATCH 1/4] mdmon: Use getopt_long() to parse command line options Jes.Sorensen
2012-01-23 11:18 ` [PATCH 2/4] Add --preboot argument to mdadm Jes.Sorensen
2012-01-23 11:18 ` [PATCH 3/4] Add --preboot argument to mdmon Jes.Sorensen
2012-01-23 11:18 ` [PATCH 4/4] Spawn mdmon with --preboot if mdadm was launched with --preboot Jes.Sorensen
2012-01-23 16:24 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] add --preboot argument to mdadm/mdmon Doug Ledford
2012-01-23 16:39 ` Jes Sorensen
2012-01-23 16:52 ` Doug Ledford
2012-01-23 17:04 ` John Robinson [this message]
2012-01-23 18:05 ` Jes Sorensen
2012-01-23 17:04 ` Krzysztof Adamski
2012-01-23 20:52 ` Lennart Poettering
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