Re: Linux mdadm superblock question.

From: Volker Armin Hemmann
Date: Wed Feb 17 2010 - 13:27:24 EST


On Mittwoch 17 Februar 2010, Nick Bowler wrote:
> On 09:41 Wed 17 Feb , david@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > for a distro that is trying to make one kernel image run on every
> > possible type of hardware features like initramfs (and udev, modeules,
> > etc) are wonderful.
> >
> > however for people who run systems that are known ahead of time and
> > static (and who build their own kernels instead of just relying on the
> > distro default kernel), all of this is unnessesary complication, which
> > leaves more room for problems to creep in.
>
> Such people can easily construct an initramfs containing busybox and
> mdadm with a shell script hardcoded to mount their root fs and run
> switch_root. It's a ~10 minute jobbie that only needs to be done once.


and even better when you don't have to do that one time job at all.

btw, what about additional delay?


Glück Auf,
Volker
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