-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 02:11:18PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >[Ralf Gesellensetter] >> What do you think? > >It is a good idea, but I ran into a problem using such setup with >RAID1. I had two disks with RAID1 and one huge file system. One day >the machine booted without the RAID starting as it should, and a >random disk was mounted instead. I did not discover the problem until >I rebooted a second time, and by chance the other disk was mounted, >missing quite a few of the files only present on the first disk. > >So, it is not always safe to use UUID.
I dare say that if you are concerned about safety of the bootup process, you should consider yaird as alternative to initramfs-tools to generate your ramdisks. The above would not happen with yaird: The generated ramdisk would be hardcoded to using RAID to reach your root filesystem. Initramfs-tools is flexible and _mostly_ does as expected. Which is great for some situations (like moving harddisk to different hardware) but not all (like running a server as stable as possible). - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIOWDpn7DbMsAkQLgRAjgwAKCn3Mll6hrVElTFgDoji0nnhTD8hQCeIG1K QWK3hHrmizzYQxd2xcFw2a0= =38Pe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
