On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 3:26 AM, Bruce Hill, Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On March 18, 2012 at 2:30 AM Michael Mol <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Bruce Hill, Jr. >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > >> > >> > On March 17, 2012 at 8:43 PM Mark Knecht <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > <snip> >> >> initramfs side of things. I did have to use one to bring up my server >> >> with / on a RAID6, not because I needed it long term but in the short >> >> term I couldn't determine how mdadm was numbering the RAID so that I >> >> could get grub.conf correct. I'm somehow a bot worried something is >> >> going to slip by the devs and I'd be better off having an initramfs >> >> already running on the box when I do allow the upgrades. >> >> >> >> Planning on giving Dracut a try. >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Mark >> >> >> > >> > >> > The real short of this is that if you use 0.90 superblocks, and /boot > on >> > it's own little partition, your kernel can assembly your >> > RAID<whateverlevel> without an initrd image. You will reboot with the >> > /dev/md0 you created as /dev/md0. And unless you have partitions (or is > it >> > single drives) over 2TB, you can use metadata=0.90. >> > >> > As they say, Works For Me (R). >> > >> > I've yet to read a simple explanation of HOW-TO do this in a Gentoo doc >> > (not that it doesn't exist), but you can follow this very simple >> > README_RAID used in Slackware to build them on Gentoo: >> > >> > http://slackware.oregonstate.edu/slackware64-current/README_RAID.TXT >> >> I recall reading on this list a week or two ago that kernel >> autoassembly of 0.90 arrays was deprecated. :( >> >> -- >> :wq >> > > Works on my computers.
And mine. But 'deprecated' means 'this may go away in the future'. -- :wq
