Andries Brouwer writes:
> Andrew Morton writes:
>
> > > (2) what about bootstrapping? how do you find the root device?
> > > Do you do "root=/dev/hda/offset=63,limit=1235823"? Bit nasty.
> >
> > Ben's patch makes initrd mandatory.
>
> Can this be fixed? I've *never* had t
Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 08:05:02PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > initrd is an unnecessary pain in the ass for most people.
> > > It had better not become mandatory.
> >
> > You would not notice the difference, only your kernel would be
> > a bit smaller and the RRPA
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat May 19 20:07:23 2001
> > initrd is an unnecessary pain in the ass for most people.
> > It had better not become mandatory.
>
> You would not notice the difference, only your kernel would be
> a bit smaller and the RRPART ioctl disappears.
W
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 08:05:02PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > initrd is an unnecessary pain in the ass for most people.
> > It had better not become mandatory.
>
> You would not notice the difference, only your kernel would be
> a bit smaller and the RRPART ioctl disappears.
Would I not
> initrd is an unnecessary pain in the ass for most people.
> It had better not become mandatory.
You would not notice the difference, only your kernel would be
a bit smaller and the RRPART ioctl disappears.
[Besides: we have lived with DOS-type partition tables for ten years,
but they will not
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 01:30:14PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I don't think so. It is necessary, and it is good.
>
> But it is easy to make the transition painless.
> Instead of the current choice between INITRD (yes/no)
> we have INITRD (default built-in / external).
> The built-in versio
Andrew Morton writes:
> > (2) what about bootstrapping? how do you find the root device?
> > Do you do "root=/dev/hda/offset=63,limit=1235823"? Bit nasty.
>
> Ben's patch makes initrd mandatory.
Can this be fixed? I've *never* had to futz with initrd.
Probably most sy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I wrote:
>The only problem I can see with this is that it removes one useful thing,
>the ability to give a user access to a whole partition.
>
>chown wingel /dev/hda5
>
>won't work anymore since there is no such device node.
Apologies, this should have gone to
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you
write:
>3. Userspace partition code proposal
>
> Given the above two bits, here's a brief explaination of a
> proposal to move management of the partitioning scheme into
> userspace, along with portions of raid startup, lvm, uuid and
> mo
Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> > (2) what about bootstrapping? how do you find the root device?
> > Do you do "root=/dev/hda/offset=63,limit=1235823"? Bit nasty.
>
> Ben's patch makes initrd mandatory.
>
Can this be fixed? I've *never* had to futz with initrd.
Probably most systems are the same.
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Alexander Viro wrote:
> >
> > > (2) what about bootstrapping? how do you find the root device?
> > > Do you do "root=/dev/hda/offset=63,limit=1235823"? Bit nasty.
> >
> > Ben's patch makes initrd mandatory.
> >
>
> Can this be fixed? I've *neve
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Ben LaHaise wrote:
> On Sat, 19 May 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 19 May 2001, Ben LaHaise wrote:
> >
> > > It's not done yet, but similar techniques would be applied. I envision
> > > that a raid device would support operations such as
> > > open("/dev/md0/sl
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> Alexander Viro wrote:
> > On Sat, 19 May 2001, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> >
> > > (1) these issues are independent. The partition parsing could
> > > be done in user space, today, by blkpg, if I read the code correctly
> > > ;-) (there's an ioctl for
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
> On Sat, 19 May 2001, Ben LaHaise wrote:
>
> > It's not done yet, but similar techniques would be applied. I envision
> > that a raid device would support operations such as
> > open("/dev/md0/slot=5,hot-add=/dev/sda")
>
> Think for a moment and you'll
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Ben LaHaise wrote:
> It's not done yet, but similar techniques would be applied. I envision
> that a raid device would support operations such as
> open("/dev/md0/slot=5,hot-add=/dev/sda")
Think for a moment and you'll see why it's not only ugly as hell, but simply
won't
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> (1) these issues are independent. The partition parsing could
> be done in user space, today, by blkpg, if I read the code correctly
> ;-) (there's an ioctl for [un]registering partitions) Never
> tried it though ;-)
I tried to imply that through t
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> (1) these issues are independent. The partition parsing could
> be done in user space, today, by blkpg, if I read the code correctly
> ;-) (there's an ioctl for [un]registering partitions) Never
> tried it though ;-)
ioctls are even more evil tha
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