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On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> AFAIK, initramfs is the newer preferred one and it's either one or the other |
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> with initrd being seldom used these days if at all. |
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> Many people still call it initrd even if int's initramfs in use - sort of a |
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> slang thing |
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I suspected as much. I was calling it initrd until I started reading |
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how to do one and found the new name. |
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I have run from the idea of doing one liked a scared little child at a |
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murder scene for the 10 years I've basically had Gentoo as my desktop |
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PC. After a couple of hours of using it I've started to think maybe I |
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should have one on every new system I do. After I got the rescue |
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environment with busybox going I could see why mdadm couldn't start |
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the RAID and knew how to fix it almost immediately. I was thinking |
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about how much time I've wasted on new bring ups where it cannot sync |
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the file system. Just being able to get around those sorts of problems |
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would have likely saved me days of time over the last decade. |
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Thanks! |
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- Mark |
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