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 1S9AWt-0007Mc-L8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 07:27:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3F66CE0A8D; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 07:27:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mout.perfora.net (mout.perfora.net [74.208.4.195]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E7B1E0A8C for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 07:26:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from oxusltgw12.schlund.de (oxusltgw12.lxa.perfora.net [172.19.206.14]) by mrelay.perfora.net (node=mrus3) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0Ln8PF-1SnSWy1XwL-00hlac; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 03:26:17 -0400 Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 03:26:17 -0400 (EDT) From: "Bruce Hill, Jr." To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-ID: <1606425681.822747.1332055577365.JavaMail.open-xchange@email.1and1.com> In-Reply-To: References: <709768995.843751.1331957483491.JavaMail.open-xchange@email.1and1.com> <20120317221553.1c49b5af@khamul.example.com> <1492498256.821231.1332043055306.JavaMail.open-xchange@email.1and1.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:FO5TkTAejr21Voio/ALbb6exuwmvzLEdm/bX9rr+ECg 7axsTAzIRo0POpsOuZOmqLEMf+XYTEshlDCygALGrNhnXRCQUi xS208ZkgPoeCUeblRSlfG+e+NZnSclvj/S0IdSP0O1lR6Flm1y NYnjoj/iqqt65WkvFmd+nBS+oEp86x3ZzRk48aSkxE4fQKuJbs IbGypwVT2sPHWsbnU9PbnW2r/U+x8dzg9hhh1bgTn+21tDFLeE 8g1fMislxuRzOgDB6pcVvTr8b5PDLR1pSekXxT+2a577qQnnrz kgV5aUL2x2+h4wecBTm4O9PY9Fwz0JXiBK6jtq1E51NiACZqp/ riuaToFa4D+zjh9A6q8ouJYMSR80PNgKyEWdUnf+SIfvBhdmZj gIrGWvEIiTTsjULgFt9jBX1TucCAMIgZpcWnT/+f+Nqbr4N/5/ IwbqK X-Archives-Salt: 0e7d900d-186e-4409-8452-0f6a656b663d X-Archives-Hash: 794849e48afc03d31fadb687d965326c On March 18, 2012 at 2:30 AM Michael Mol wrote: > On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Bruce Hill, Jr. > wrote: > > > > > > > > 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 > > 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. -- Happy Penguin Computers >`) 126 Fenco Drive ( \ Tupelo, MS 38801 ^^ 662-269-2706; 662-491-8613 support at happypenguincomputers dot com http://www.happypenguincomputers.com