Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932865Ab0BPRS3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:18:29 -0500 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:54403 "EHLO partygirl.tmr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932199Ab0BPRS1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:18:27 -0500 Message-ID: <4B7AD35E.7000405@tmr.com> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:18:22 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen Organization: TMR Associates Inc, Schenectady NY User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090507 Fedora/1.1.16-1.fc9 NOT Firefox/3.0.11 pango-text SeaMonkey/1.1.16 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: 1143 Lines: 33 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. > You make this sound like some major big deal. are you running your own distribution? In most cases mkinitrd does the right thing when you "make install" the kernel, and if you are doing something in the build so complex that it needs options, you really should understand the options and be sure you're doing what you want. Generally this involves preloading a module or two, and if you need it every time you probably should have built it in, anyway. My opinion... -- Bill Davidsen "We can't solve today's problems by using the same thinking we used in creating them." - Einstein -- 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/