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

[Michael Mol]

On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 3:26 AM, Bruce Hill, Jr.
<daddy@×××××××××××××××××××××.com> wrote:
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> On March 18, 2012 at 2:30 AM Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote:
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>> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Bruce Hill, Jr.
>> <daddy@×××××××××××××××××××××.com> wrote:
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>> > On March 17, 2012 at 8:43 PM Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
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>> > <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.
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>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Mark
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>> > 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.
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>> > As they say, Works For Me (R).
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>> > 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:
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>> > http://slackware.oregonstate.edu/slackware64-current/README_RAID.TXT
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>> I recall reading on this list a week or two ago that kernel
>> autoassembly of 0.90 arrays was deprecated. :(
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>> --
>> :wq
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> Works on my computers.

And mine. But 'deprecated' means 'this may go away in the future'.

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:wq