Re: RAID SB 1.x autodetection
Jan Engelhardt wrote: On May 30 2007 16:35, Bill Davidsen wrote: On 29 May 2007, Jan Engelhardt uttered the following: from your post at http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-raid@vger.kernel.org/msg07384.html I read that autodetecting arrays with a 1.x superblock is currently impossible. Does it at least work to force the kernel to always assume a 1.x sb? There are some 'broken' distros out there that still don't use mdadm in initramfs, and recreating the initramfs each time is a bit cumbersome... The kernel build system should be able to do that for you, shouldn't it? That would be an improvement, yes. Hardly, with all the Fedora specific cruft. Anyway, there was a simple patch posted in RH bugzilla, so I've gone with that. I'm not sure what Fedora has to do with it, it is generally useful to all distributions. What I had in mind was a make target, so that instead of install as target, you could have install_mdadm in the Makefile. Or mdadm_install to be consistent with modules_install perhaps. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: RAID SB 1.x autodetection
On May 31 2007 09:00, Bill Davidsen wrote: Hardly, with all the Fedora specific cruft. Anyway, there was a simple patch posted in RH bugzilla, so I've gone with that. I'm not sure what Fedora has to do with it, I like highly modularized systems. And that requires an initramfs to load all the required modules. Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: RAID SB 1.x autodetection
On 29 May 2007, Jan Engelhardt uttered the following: from your post at http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-raid@vger.kernel.org/msg07384.html I read that autodetecting arrays with a 1.x superblock is currently impossible. Does it at least work to force the kernel to always assume a 1.x sb? There are some 'broken' distros out there that still don't use mdadm in initramfs, and recreating the initramfs each time is a bit cumbersome... The kernel build system should be able to do that for you, shouldn't it? -- `On a scale of one to ten of usefulness, BBC BASIC was several points ahead of the competition, scoring a relatively respectable zero.' --- Peter Corlett - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: RAID SB 1.x autodetection
Nix wrote: On 29 May 2007, Jan Engelhardt uttered the following: from your post at http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-raid@vger.kernel.org/msg07384.html I read that autodetecting arrays with a 1.x superblock is currently impossible. Does it at least work to force the kernel to always assume a 1.x sb? There are some 'broken' distros out there that still don't use mdadm in initramfs, and recreating the initramfs each time is a bit cumbersome... The kernel build system should be able to do that for you, shouldn't it? That would be an improvement, yes. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: RAID SB 1.x autodetection
On May 30 2007 16:35, Bill Davidsen wrote: On 29 May 2007, Jan Engelhardt uttered the following: from your post at http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-raid@vger.kernel.org/msg07384.html I read that autodetecting arrays with a 1.x superblock is currently impossible. Does it at least work to force the kernel to always assume a 1.x sb? There are some 'broken' distros out there that still don't use mdadm in initramfs, and recreating the initramfs each time is a bit cumbersome... The kernel build system should be able to do that for you, shouldn't it? That would be an improvement, yes. Hardly, with all the Fedora specific cruft. Anyway, there was a simple patch posted in RH bugzilla, so I've gone with that. Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: RAID SB 1.x autodetection
On 30 May 2007, Bill Davidsen stated: Nix wrote: On 29 May 2007, Jan Engelhardt uttered the following: from your post at http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-raid@vger.kernel.org/msg07384.html I read that autodetecting arrays with a 1.x superblock is currently impossible. Does it at least work to force the kernel to always assume a 1.x sb? There are some 'broken' distros out there that still don't use mdadm in initramfs, and recreating the initramfs each time is a bit cumbersome... The kernel build system should be able to do that for you, shouldn't it? That would be an improvement, yes. Allow me to rephrase: the kernel build system *can* do that for you ;) that is, it can build a gzipped cpio archive from components located anywhere on the filesystem or arbitrary source located under usr/. -- `On a scale of one to ten of usefulness, BBC BASIC was several points ahead of the competition, scoring a relatively respectable zero.' --- Peter Corlett - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
RAID SB 1.x autodetection
Hi, from your post at http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-raid@vger.kernel.org/msg07384.html I read that autodetecting arrays with a 1.x superblock is currently impossible. Does it at least work to force the kernel to always assume a 1.x sb? There are some 'broken' distros out there that still don't use mdadm in initramfs, and recreating the initramfs each time is a bit cumbersome... Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
