Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933160Ab0BQN0x (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:26:53 -0500 Received: from cpsmtpm-eml110.kpnxchange.com ([195.121.3.14]:54701 "EHLO CPSMTPM-EML110.kpnxchange.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932987Ab0BQN0u (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:26:50 -0500 From: Frans Pop To: Rudy Zijlstra Subject: Re: Linux mdadm superblock question. Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:26:46 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: kyle@moffetthome.net, neilb@suse.de, babydr@baby-dragons.com, davidsen@tmr.com, volkerarmin@googlemail.com, mjevans1983@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org References: <201002140251.59668.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <4877c76c1002132002s20d942c3i7cee5418cdcf369c@mail.gmail.com> <201002141940.35716.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <4B7AD35E.7000405@tmr.com> <20100217130103.3ca65ef3@notabene.brown> <4B7BB927.5000305@grumpydevil.homelinux.org> In-reply-To: <4B7BB927.5000305@grumpydevil.homelinux.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201002171426.47981.elendil@planet.nl> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Feb 2010 13:26:48.0163 (UTC) FILETIME=[DB5BBB30:01CAAFD4] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 958 Lines: 23 Rudy Zijlstra wrote: > 1/ distro tools assume that the kernel being build will run on that > machine. For servers this is often not true. There are very valid > security reasons to exclude compilation capability from many servers. That's simply not true, at least not for Debian. If you actually use the distro tools [1] the only assumptions are made at kernel *installation* time, not at kernel build time. I've been using initramfs-tools generated initrds for years without problems, and that includes "root on LVM on LUKS encrypted partition" and "root on LVM on RAID" setups. Cheers, FJP [1] I.e. if you build and install the kernel as a .deb package using e.g. the deb-pkg target or kernel-package. -- 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/