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On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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> - dracut: I failed to find any documentation in our handbooks. |
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> Anyway, dracut looks like overkill for my simple usage case. |
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I dunno - dracut aims to be the ultimate generic automagic |
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plugin-supporting option, so I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand. Its |
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biggest issue is that its features have overtaken the documentation, |
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and it is still pretty raw. |
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> So finally I ended up building my own initramfs, using information |
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> from the wiki and from forums. |
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I think you would have been better off with dracut, but as I've |
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blogged it isn't without its issues. I might give genkernel a shot |
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again now that it sounds like it has better handling of |
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md/lvm/bind/etc. If it can figure out my setup then I'll be |
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impressed. |
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My biggest issue with dracut is that for whatever reason it doesn't |
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detect and assemble my raid. I ended up hacking together a module to |
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force it to run: |
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mdadm -As |
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lvm pvscan |
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lvm vgscan |
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lvm lvscan |
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lvm vgchange -ay |
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I just can't get how if that works how the automagic functionality in |
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the script can't work. The part that fails is mdadm bit, and it works |
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fine on full-auto mode (though it does have my mdadm.conf to look at). |
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Even the kernel auto-assembles the raid fine, though that code is |
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disabled if you use an initramfs. |
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> IMHO this has to be done before >=udev-180 can be stabilised. |
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I agree completely. The current documentation is too weak for stabilization. |
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Rich |
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