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From: P@draigBrady.com
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	Ricky Beam <jfbeam@bluetronic.net>,
	"Eric D. Mudama" <edmudama@bounceswoosh.org>,
	"Robert M. Stockmann" <stock@stokkie.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SATA disk device naming ?
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 10:48:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40F50181.7070900@draigBrady.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040713223541.GB7980@taniwha.stupidest.org>

Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 12:49:11PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> 
>>For LABEL to work on root filesystem, you need an initrd.
> 
> 
> initrd is such a PITA at times, I wondered about something hacky like
> sticking LABEL parsing for rootfs (marked init) into the kernel but
> it's really gross.
> 
> Ideally the initrd/initramfs process just needs better (userspace)
> infrastructure to make it more reliable/easier.

Something like this?
http://www-124.ibm.com/pipermail/evms/2001-March/000119.html

initrd is awkward but I've found I need the flexibility.
For e.g. I modified nash to support an index as well as
a label so one could have multiple redundant filesystem
images to choose from.

Pádraig.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-14  9:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-13  2:25 SATA disk device naming ? Robert M. Stockmann
2004-07-13  3:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-14 11:20   ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-07-15 17:37     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-07-15 18:07       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-13  6:46 ` Eric D. Mudama
2004-07-13 13:24   ` Ian Soboroff
2004-07-13 16:23   ` Ricky Beam
2004-07-13 16:49     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-13 17:29       ` Tigran Aivazian
2004-07-13 22:35       ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-07-14  9:48         ` P [this message]
2004-07-15  2:44         ` Joel Becker
2004-07-25 19:05           ` Greg KH
2004-07-13 17:15     ` Tigran Aivazian
2004-07-13 16:58       ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-07-14  0:09 DaMouse

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