Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752905Ab0BNTQR (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:16:17 -0500 Received: from hole.yuiop.co.uk ([89.145.97.62]:52614 "EHLO mail.yuiop.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752844Ab0BNTQP (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:16:15 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1361 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:16:15 EST Message-ID: <4B7846B2.1030303@anonymous.org.uk> Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:53:38 +0000 From: John Robinson Organization: None; Disorganization: Total User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090812 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Volker Armin Hemmann CC: Michael Evans , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux mdadm superblock question. References: <201002140251.59668.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <4877c76c1002132002s20d942c3i7cee5418cdcf369c@mail.gmail.com> <201002141940.35716.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <201002141940.35716.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 691 Lines: 21 On 14/02/2010 18:40, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Sonntag 14 Februar 2010, you wrote: > >> In other words, 'auto-detection' for 1.x format devices is using an >> initrd/initramfs. > > which makes 1.x format useless for everybody who does not want to deal with > initrd/initramfs. True, but afaik every distro uses an initrd/initramfs and bundles tools making it easy to manage and customise them, so what's the problem? Cheers, John. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/