From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S97Gm-0007Pv-Co for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 03:59:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A7F2CE093D; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 03:58:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mout.perfora.net (mout.perfora.net [74.208.4.194]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 524FEE08F2 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 03:57:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from oxusltgw12.schlund.de (oxusltgw12.lxa.perfora.net [172.19.206.14]) by mrelay.perfora.net (node=mrus0) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MCKpF-1S04go0vkP-0093Fx; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:57:35 -0400 Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:57:35 -0400 (EDT) From: "Bruce Hill, Jr." To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-ID: <1492498256.821231.1332043055306.JavaMail.open-xchange@email.1and1.com> In-Reply-To: References: <709768995.843751.1331957483491.JavaMail.open-xchange@email.1and1.com> <20120317221553.1c49b5af@khamul.example.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way! Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Medium X-Mailer: Open-Xchange Mailer v6.20.0-Rev36 X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:+qsZlaFsFiQ6UNptIxjdLeKmxDr5Vx3NFZPkyzEfW2s Jmfnm/VUXGh1rn7wWIUo9bmGtLakn4Z9q3dtKu+foj5SNFrfYh MBQNyH4kmmEZmb6rJJpHAAapiMj3wY8e8eCVxKmW00Yl32ZJr7 M8KZCCC9uPQnDhJ44UAZ+zWRRYbrG3SLVYqmxp4vWq0cuDboSB kafoZwhkLgkjAP7Se3C7TZ+JroyI7nBachgTNVVGvrRqO1B7Xm scJy8OBLcl4etnhBXBGWWNlidqqY8DfIFFegomPFnugfb10uWA hOkdjtN0itp2McXouyZHFU3wH0E/b4/lLaOklZ+vB5tF53bVJA jv5b2lfD1kSHFdXuc0koI6m1qrsWy99Jq7DrQUjypl5UsNjjLQ Cec2ff+crFqnAvc56AfVkJApkl3nNP8eCZo3Al+QoKd4Xo1K5y eV0eZ X-Archives-Salt: 3b89d2fb-f2ce-4a31-8689-47cef201dbe8 X-Archives-Hash: b5524a7a44cc3772dfe723079d36a82b On March 17, 2012 at 8:43 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > 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 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 -- Happy Penguin Computers >`) 126 Fenco Drive ( \ Tupelo, MS 38801 ^^ 662-269-2706; 662-491-8613 support at happypenguincomputers dot com http://www.happypenguincomputers.com