-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/20/06 18:16, Warren Turkal wrote: > On Wednesday 20 December 2006 02:59, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> Just rearrange the initscripts so that mdadm is ran _after_ aoetools. > > If it were only that easy, I would do that. However, there is much more to > it. > For instance, the mdadm and lvm and evms run in the initramfs. Also the > ethernet card receiving the AOE data needs to be up to talk to the devices, > and thus needs to be up. An IP is not neccesarily needed for AOE (think "ip > link set eth1 up") unlike ISCSI. I wish there were a way to make the aoetools > script work, but it is fundamentally broken. I would like to work with the > maintainer, but he has been pretty unresponsive to this use case.
Roll a custom kernel that either statically links the modules, or loads them in your preferred order? > I have now added the scripts to make it work from initramfs and to make sure > the network is up during shutdown at the right time to let the lvm subsystem > properly shut down. I also disabled the aoetools scripts. I have posted the > required scripts at [1]. Granted, they are a total hack, but they work. I > wish someone smarter than me about this stuff would take a look. As one > improvement, I could probably use the /etc/default/aoetools in the initramfs > script. > > wt > > [1]http://penguintechs.org/debian/aoe_stuff/aoe-block.tar - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFidVzS9HxQb37XmcRAh1oAJ9kzSvFqATGPdJa8ZFGpCujzVxQPwCgz88s mZRvGSwuBrywRXcdrryxx6U= =dNzb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]