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 1SDE63-0002WS-Je for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:04:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 396EEE0AC6 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:04:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq1.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq1.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.34.164]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83042E0CF4 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:46:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.34.135] (helo=smtp4.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq1.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SDBwO-0000RN-QD for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:46:48 +0200 Received: from 5ed027d6.cm-7-1a.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([94.208.39.214] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp4.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SDBwO-0003S5-Eu for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:46:48 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 863B82A90 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:48:27 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 3K9wjLdWqDOW for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:48:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from www.antarean.org (net.antarean.org [10.10.11.5]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CE181E15 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:48:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 62.132.204.73 (SquirrelMail authenticated user joost) by www.antarean.org with HTTP; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:48:25 +0200 Message-ID: <50213a06b90b9d5c04c797d7bec4a7de.squirrel@www.antarean.org> 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> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:48:25 +0200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way! From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.21 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=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Ziggo-spambar: / X-Ziggo-spamscore: -0.9 X-Ziggo-spamreport: BAYES_00=-1.9,KHOP_DYNAMIC=0.001,RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.982,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Ziggo-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Flag: No X-Archives-Salt: 8dc3316c-98b3-46d3-bac6-f75477daabe8 X-Archives-Hash: a7390e6a17efb96c22e2741f66586c0a On Sun, March 18, 2012 8:30 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 i= s >> it >> single drives) over 2TB, you can use metadata=3D0.90. >> >> As they say, Works For Me (R). >> >> I've yet to read a simple explanation of HOW-TO do this in a Gentoo do= c >> (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. :( Shhh! Please don't tell my production server ;) It might go at some point, especially if they decide that everyone uses initramfs or similar... -- Joost