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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 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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