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On Sun, March 18, 2012 8:30 am, Michael Mol wrote: |
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> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Bruce Hill, Jr. |
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> <daddy@×××××××××××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On March 17, 2012 at 8:43 PM Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> initramfs side of things. I did have to use one to bring up my server |
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>>> with / on a RAID6, not because I needed it long term but in the short |
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>>> term I couldn't determine how mdadm was numbering the RAID so that I |
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>>> could get grub.conf correct. I'm somehow a bot worried something is |
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>>> going to slip by the devs and I'd be better off having an initramfs |
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>>> already running on the box when I do allow the upgrades. |
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>>> Planning on giving Dracut a try. |
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>>> Thanks, |
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>>> Mark |
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>> The real short of this is that if you use 0.90 superblocks, and /boot on |
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>> it's own little partition, your kernel can assembly your |
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>> RAID<whateverlevel> without an initrd image. You will reboot with the |
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>> /dev/md0 you created as /dev/md0. And unless you have partitions (or is |
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>> it |
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>> 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 |
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>> (not that it doesn't exist), but you can follow this very simple |
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>> 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 |
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> autoassembly of 0.90 arrays was deprecated. :( |
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Shhh! |
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Please don't tell my production server ;) |
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It might go at some point, especially if they decide that everyone uses |
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initramfs or similar... |
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