Re: A random initramfs script

2006-03-15 Thread Nix
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Neil Brown wrote: > On Wednesday March 15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On 08:29, Nix wrote: >> > Yeah, that would work. Neil's very *emphatic* about hardwiring the UUIDs of >> > your arrays, though I'll admit that given the existence of --examine >> > --scan, >> > I don't real

Re: No syncing after crash. Is this a software raid bug?

2006-03-15 Thread Kasper Dupont
On 10/03/06 08.49, Kasper Dupont wrote: > On 10/03/06 08.43, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 12:18:35PM +0100, Kasper Dupont wrote: > > > > > > OK, I'll do some testing with raid5 then. I want to know if it > > > behaves differently from raid1 in this respect. > > > > Have yo

Re: A random initramfs script

2006-03-15 Thread Andre Noll
On 20:56, Nix wrote: > > What I meant is that it never gets overmounted by a real rootfs. > > The rootfs never overmounts anything. Do you mean `it never gets > overmounted by a real root filesystem'? Yes, that's what I tried to say. Sorry about the confusion. Basically I have three similar setu

Re: A random initramfs script

2006-03-15 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday March 15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 08:29, Nix wrote: > > I try to avoid running daemons out of initramfs, because all those daemons > > share *no* inodes with anything else you'll ever run: more permanent memory > > load for as long as those daemons are running, although at least

Re: Bitmaps & Kernel Versions

2006-03-15 Thread Luca Berra
On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 09:08:17PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: On Wednesday March 15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm planning to use bitmaps on some of our RAID1 arrays. I'm wondering how bitmaps are handeled by older kernels. Eg: I create a raid array with a bitmap under a 2.6.15 kernel. I n

Re: A random initramfs script

2006-03-15 Thread Andre Noll
On 08:29, Nix wrote: > > I'm using a similar setup since December or so with no problems so > > far. However, all my systems have initramfs as their rootfs. > > (well, technically, *every* 2.6 system has an initramfs unpacked into > its rootfs: it's just that for most people it's empty.) What I

Re: Bitmaps & Kernel Versions

2006-03-15 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday March 15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I'm planning to use bitmaps on some of our RAID1 arrays. > > I'm wondering how bitmaps are handeled by older kernels. > > Eg: I create a raid array with a bitmap under a 2.6.15 kernel. > > I now want to boot under 2.6.12, or even 2.4 >

Bitmaps & Kernel Versions

2006-03-15 Thread Laurent CARON
Hi, I'm planning to use bitmaps on some of our RAID1 arrays. I'm wondering how bitmaps are handeled by older kernels. Eg: I create a raid array with a bitmap under a 2.6.15 kernel. I now want to boot under 2.6.12, or even 2.4 Hos is it handeled? Will it work even if this is my / partition?

Re: A random initramfs script

2006-03-15 Thread Nix
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Andre Noll gibbered uncontrollably: > On 21:37, Nix wrote: > >> In the interests of pushing people away from in-kernel autodetection, >> I thought I'd provide the initramfs script I just knocked up to boot >> my RAID+LVM system. It's had a whole four days of testing so it mus