On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Danecki, Jacek <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Is there a real need for mdmon to start prior to being in the real >> rootfs? > > mdmon is needed to change raid array to RW mode, so as long as rootfs is > mounted RO, mdmon can be started in real rootfs.--
No, that is what I originally thought until I tried to mount an xfs filesystem that had been uncleanly shutdown. Even if the rootfs is mounted read-only the backing device needs to be read-write to recover the journal. -- Dan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
