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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 12:21 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> > You're right, that's ONE of the points of using an initramfs. |
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>> Another |
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>> > point would be, that you're able to put / on LVM/Software-RAID. |
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>> You don't need an initramfs to use Software RAID for /, as long as the |
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>> necessary modules are built into the kernel. You do need one for LVM. |
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> Why is that? Is it the user-space tools (vgscan, vgchange, etc) needed |
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> to find the volumes at start time? |
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Yes, exactly. As you just wrote, with LVM, you need to activate the |
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VGs, find the PVs and so on. For this, user-space tools are required. |
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Not so for Software RAID. According to Neil, the kernel can do all |
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that's required without the help of user-space tools. Neil might |
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be right in saying so - I'd suppose that he is right. |
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