Re: Patch for boot-time assembly of v1.x-metadata-based soft (MD) arrays: reasoning and future plans

2007-08-27 Thread David Greaves
Dan Williams wrote: On 8/26/07, Abe Skolnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Because you can rely on the configuration file to be certain about which disks to pull in and which to ignore. Without the config file the auto-detect routine may not always do the right thing because it will need to make as

Re: Patch for boot-time assembly of v1.x-metadata-based soft (MD) arrays: reasoning and future plans

2007-08-26 Thread Dan Williams
On 8/26/07, Abe Skolnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Mr./Dr. Williams, > Just "Dan" is fine :-) > > Because you can rely on the configuration file to be certain about > > which disks to pull in and which to ignore. Without the config file > > the auto-detect routine may not always do the rig

Patch for boot-time assembly of v1.x-metadata-based soft (MD) arrays: reasoning and future plans

2007-08-26 Thread Abe Skolnik
Dear Mr./Dr. Williams, > Because you can rely on the configuration file to be certain about > which disks to pull in and which to ignore. Without the config file > the auto-detect routine may not always do the right thing because it > will need to make assumptions. But kernel parameters can prov

Re: Patch for boot-time assembly of v1.x-metadata-based soft (MD) arrays

2007-08-26 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, Abe Skolnik wrote: Dear Mr./Dr./Prof. Brown et al, I recently had the unpleasant experience of creating an MD array for the purpose of booting off it and then not being able to do so. Since I had already made changes to the array's

Re: Patch for boot-time assembly of v1.x-metadata-based soft (MD) arrays

2007-08-26 Thread Dan Williams
On 8/26/07, Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, Abe Skolnik wrote: > > > Dear Mr./Dr./Prof. Brown et al, > > > > I recently had the unpleasant experience of creating an MD array for > > the purpose of booting off it and then not being able to do so. Since > > I had

Re: Patch for boot-time assembly of v1.x-metadata-based soft (MD) arrays

2007-08-26 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, Abe Skolnik wrote: Dear Mr./Dr./Prof. Brown et al, I recently had the unpleasant experience of creating an MD array for the purpose of booting off it and then not being able to do so. Since I had already made changes to the array's contents relative to that which I clone

Patch for boot-time assembly of v1.x-metadata-based soft (MD) arrays

2007-08-26 Thread Abe Skolnik
Dear Mr./Dr./Prof. Brown et al, I recently had the unpleasant experience of creating an MD array for the purpose of booting off it and then not being able to do so. Since I had already made changes to the array's contents relative to that which I cloned it from, I did not want to reformat the arr