Austin S. Hemmelgarn posted on Wed, 22 Aug 2018 07:30:09 -0400 as excerpted:
>> Meanwhile, since broken rootflags requiring an initr* came up let me >> take the opportunity to ask once again, does btrfs-raid1 root still >> require an initr*? It'd be /so/ nice to be able to supply the >> appropriate rootflags=device=...,device=... and actually have it work >> so I didn't need the initr* any longer! > Last I knew, specifying appropriate `device=` options in rootflags works > correctly without an initrd. Just to confirm, that's with multi-device btrfs rootfs? Because it used to work when the btrfs was single-device, but not multi-device. (For multi-device, or at least raid1, one had to add degraded, also, or it would refuse to mount despite all the appropriate device= entries in rootflags, thus of course risking all the problems running degraded raid1 operationally can bring, tho I never figured out for sure whether btrfs was smart enough to eventually pick up the other devices, after the scan before bringing other btrfs online or not, but either way it was a risk I wasn't willing to take.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
