From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Pittman Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.2 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 17:00:31 +1100 Message-ID: <87zmmb2ozk.fsf@rimspace.net> References: <17299.55654.747972.455172@cse.unsw.edu.au> <20051206145939.GD26862@skl-net.de> <00a201c6119b$25f58bd0$c100a8c0@NCNF5131FTH> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids "David M. Strang" writes: [...] > I'm not very initrd savvy; and I'm having a heck of a time making the > initramfs instructions in mdadm work. Does anyone have a working example > of them? [...] > I've added a /dev directory to the init.cpio.gz as well. It seems like I > may have some cart before the horse syndrome tho, as mdadm cannot find > /dev/sdb1... which I'm assuming is because udev hasn't started. Perhaps you would be better served by starting with a fully functional initramfs (or initrd) implementation that is in active use, then extending (or adapting) it to do what you wanted? Ubuntu Linux and Debian unstable have the 'initramfs-tools' package which currently boots a number of software RAID machines for me, and seems a fairly reasonably understandable implementation of the concept. Regards, Daniel