On Sun, March 18, 2012 8:30 am, Michael Mol 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. :(
Shhh! Please don't tell my production server ;) It might go at some point, especially if they decide that everyone uses initramfs or similar... -- Joost
