From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe Subject: Re: MD or MDADM bug? Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 11:35:17 +0200 Message-ID: References: <015901c5af3b$e0885710$c100a8c0@NCNF5131FTH> <17176.2600.694418.472339@cse.unsw.edu.au> <018f01c5af99$0343f6d0$c100a8c0@NCNF5131FTH> <17176.4401.418417.56385@cse.unsw.edu.au> <019601c5af9b$23d8ce50$c100a8c0@NCNF5131FTH> <17176.7326.892297.381537@cse.unsw.edu.au> <01a101c5afa2$8b3f2060$c100a8c0@NCNF5131FTH> <17176.9057.119383.787644@cse.unsw.edu.au> <01ac01c5afa6$3d4d8690$c100a8c0@NCNF5131FTH> <17176.13548.477061.774536@cse.unsw.edu.au> <001c01c5b004$64c902e0$c700a8c0@NCNF5131FTH> <17176.51414.689631.346198@cse.unsw.edu.au> <003501c5b016$cc5d68d0$c700a8c0@NCNF5131FTH> <17177.7688.922030.788691@cse.unsw.edu.au> <43195D20.1070103@dtbb.net> <17178.37305.857263.952767@cse.unsw.edu.au> Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids danci@agenda.si wrote: > On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Neil Brown wrote: >> I've never liked kernel autodetect, and while I won't break it, I >> would like to migrate people away from it. > How will we use MD for root filesystem? Will we *always* need a tricky > initrd with mdadm added? If you don't (like to) have kernel autodetection, you'll always need initrd with mdadm or something like that to boot up a MD for the root fs, yes. regards Mario -- > As Luke Leighton said once on samba-ntdom, "now, what was that about > rebooting? that was so long ago, i had to look it up with man -k."