From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KsLak-0005Vo-U0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:04:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C098BE0496; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:04:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mxs1.siemens.at (mxs1.siemens.at [194.138.12.131]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79844E04AE for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:04:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vies1k7x.sie.siemens.at ([158.226.129.83]) by mxs1.siemens.at with ESMTP id m9LI4NF5028472 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:04:23 +0200 Received: from nets139a.ww300.siemens.net ([192.168.217.3]) by vies1k7x.sie.siemens.at (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.1) with ESMTP id m9LI4NnS032232 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:04:23 +0200 Received: from atnets15pa.ww300.siemens.net ([158.226.250.54]) by nets139a.ww300.siemens.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:04:22 +0200 x-mimeole: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message 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" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse than software RAID? Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:04:22 +0200 Message-ID: <634E5748C35AC1409E0A42352E9960EA014A62D6@atnets15pa.ww300.siemens.net> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse than software RAID? Thread-Index: AckyuF3mfhcSYfN5RfKAEomrg5dO7AA6+HUn References: <48F5EB5C.4020402@siemens.com><20081020065420.GA22327@atpcbygc.ram.siemens.at><20081020031346.4a2c753a@mandalor.homelinux.net><200810201324.11273.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <20081020073144.506f2b3a@mandalor.homelinux.net> From: "Liebich, Wolfgang" To: , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Oct 2008 18:04:22.0679 (UTC) FILETIME=[724A3270:01C933A7] X-purgate: clean X-purgate: This mail is considered clean X-purgate-type: clean X-purgate-Ad: Checked for Spam by eleven - eXpurgate www.eXpurgate.net X-purgate-ID: 149917::081021200423-0BA21BA0-59E74CDB/0-0/0-15 X-purgate-size: 1456/0 X-Archives-Salt: 372b62ce-0f78-4e86-85a6-23aac6b17c6e X-Archives-Hash: 98c7e6da089a57c50ac5c9589a0baae0 On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:24:11 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Montag 20 Oktober 2008, Conway S. Smith wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:54:20 +0200 > > > > Wolfgang Liebich wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > > > > the howtos on gentoo-wiki worked well for me. > > > > > > I'm working with them, too. Just one question remains: I want > > > to use udev. Do I have to create the md devices or does udev > > > that for me? > > > > udev will do it for you. But make sure your initramfs init script > > unmounts /sys & /proc.=20 >=20 > just don't use an initramfs/initrd. >=20 >From my reading initramfs/initrd is the preferred way of handling root filesystem on MD RAID - and the only way for metadata 1.[012] (although I'm having trouble finding where I read that only 0.90 works w/ in-kernel detection/assembly). >From /usr/share/doc/mdadm-2.6.7/README.initramfs.bz2: "The preferred way to assemble md arrays at boot time is using 'mdadm' or 'mdassemble' (which is a trimmed-down mdadm). To assemble an array which contains the root filesystem, mdadm needs to be run before that filesystem is mounted, and so needs to be run from an initial-ram-fs." Conway S. Smith --=20 The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned. (Bruce Ediger, bediger@teal.csn.org, in comp.os.linux.misc, on X interfaces.)