Re: devfs persistence

From: Richard Gooch (rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca)
Date: Wed May 03 2000 - 22:32:01 EST


Stephen C. Tweedie writes:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 03:42:35PM -0600, Richard Gooch wrote:
> >
> > But you're really just moving the problem, since now you have to
> > configure LVM/MD to say where the real devices are. And they can shift
> > around (which is where this dicussion started).
>
> No you don't. That's the point.
>
> If you configure raid autostart, then every partition with a
> specific partition type will be scanned for raid superblocks when
> the partition table for the disk has been read. The correct logical
> devices will be set up, no matter which physical devices are found
> to contain those superblocks.

Is this done by the kernel? We need this to work for / as well
(without initrd kludges).

                                Regards,

                                        Richard....
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