Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753654Ab0BQSKl (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:10:41 -0500 Received: from dsl-67-204-24-19.acanac.net ([67.204.24.19]:38003 "EHLO emergent.ellipticsemi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753452Ab0BQSKk (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:10:40 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:10:16 -0500 From: Nick Bowler To: david@lang.hm Cc: Kyle Moffett , Rudy Zijlstra , Neil Brown , "Mr. James W. Laferriere" , Bill Davidsen , Volker Armin Hemmann , Michael Evans , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux mdadm superblock question. Message-ID: <20100217181016.GA14983@emergent.ellipticsemi.com> Mail-Followup-To: david@lang.hm, Kyle Moffett , Rudy Zijlstra , Neil Brown , "Mr. James W. Laferriere" , Bill Davidsen , Volker Armin Hemmann , Michael Evans , 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: Elliptic Technologies Inc. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 999 Lines: 21 On 09:41 Wed 17 Feb , david@lang.hm 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. -- Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/) -- 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/