Re: Linux mdadm superblock question.

[Nick Bowler]

On 09:41 Wed 17 Feb     , david@xxxxxxx wrote:
> for a distro that is trying to make one kernel image run on every
> possible type of hardware features like initramfs (and udev, modeules,
> etc) are wonderful.
> 
> however for people who run systems that are known ahead of time and
> static (and who build their own kernels instead of just relying on the
> distro default kernel), all of this is unnessesary complication, which
> leaves more room for problems to creep in.

Such people can easily construct an initramfs containing busybox and
mdadm with a shell script hardcoded to mount their root fs and run
switch_root.  It's a ~10 minute jobbie that only needs to be done once.

-- 
Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)
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