also sprach Marco d'Itri <m...@linux.it> [2010.01.30.0233 +1300]:
> > mdadm in incremental mode needs the hostname to be able to work
> > without a configuration file, which would make RAID-boot much
> > more robust. Instead of mdadm touching
> > /proc/sys/kernel/{host,domain}name, it feels like initramfs
> > should do that.
> What happens if the hostname is changed but the initramfs is not
> rebuilt?How likely is that to happen? How likely is it to happen that the hostname is changed, an array built (thus carrying the new hostname), and the initramfs not rebuilt? Yes, I see these problems, but I don't think they are so real that they warrant guarding against them. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madd...@d.o> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon." -- epigrams in programming
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