Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!

On March 18, 2012 at 2:30 AM Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Bruce Hill, Jr.
> <daddy@×××××××××××××××××××××.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On March 17, 2012 at 8:43 PM Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >> initramfs side of things. I did have to use one to bring up my server
> >> with / on a RAID6, not because I needed it long term but in the short
> >> term I couldn't determine how mdadm was numbering the RAID so that I
> >> could get grub.conf correct. I'm somehow a bot worried something is
> >> going to slip by the devs and I'd be better off having an initramfs
> >> already running on the box when I do allow the upgrades.
> >>
> >> Planning on giving Dracut a try.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Mark
> >>
> >
> >
> > The real short of this is that if you use 0.90 superblocks, and /boot
on
> > it's own little partition, your kernel can assembly your
> > RAID<whateverlevel> without an initrd image. You will reboot with the
> > /dev/md0 you created as /dev/md0. And unless you have partitions (or is
it
> > single drives) over 2TB, you can use metadata=0.90.
> >
> > As they say, Works For Me (R).
> >
> > I've yet to read a simple explanation of HOW-TO do this in a Gentoo doc
> > (not that it doesn't exist), but you can follow this very simple
> > README_RAID used in Slackware to build them on Gentoo:
> >
> > http://slackware.oregonstate.edu/slackware64-current/README_RAID.TXT
>
> I recall reading on this list a week or two ago that kernel
> autoassembly of 0.90 arrays was deprecated. :(
>
> --
> :wq
>

Works on my computers.
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