On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Bruce Hill, Jr. <da...@happypenguincomputers.com> wrote: > > > > On March 17, 2012 at 8:43 PM Mark Knecht <markkne...@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
