* Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!
@ 2012-03-18 7:54 99% ` Michael Mol
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From: Michael Mol @ 2012-03-18 7:54 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 3:26 AM, Bruce Hill, Jr.
<daddy@happypenguincomputers.com> wrote:
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>
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> On March 18, 2012 at 2:30 AM Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Bruce Hill, Jr.
>> <daddy@happypenguincomputers.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On March 17, 2012 at 8:43 PM Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > <snip>
>> >> 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<whateverlevel> 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.
And mine. But 'deprecated' means 'this may go away in the future'.
--
:wq
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