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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:10:16 -0500 From: Nick Bowler <nbowler@...iptictech.com> To: david@...g.hm Cc: Kyle Moffett <kyle@...fetthome.net>, Rudy Zijlstra <rudy@...mpydevil.homelinux.org>, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr@...y-dragons.com>, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>, Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@...glemail.com>, Michael Evans <mjevans1983@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-raid@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux mdadm superblock question. On 09:41 Wed 17 Feb , david@...g.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@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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