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Subject: Re: SATA disk device naming ?
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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.