[ale] initramfs capable of a multi-device btrfs / new initramfs with dracut help?

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Fri Jul 16 13:19:29 EDT 2010


On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us>wrote:

>
> It would be nice, though, if I could get rid of the mdraid setup that I
> have currently.  I really am finding that I hate Linux's software RAID.
> I have been trying for weeks to make it act intelligently, but it
> doesn't seem to be really capable of that without lots of manual help.
> I'm probably missing something (and honestly, I *seriously* hope that I
> am) but as it is, I cannot reboot my server running the RAID without
> physically being there to bring up the RAID.  That's not cool.  I had to
> disable the automatic feature because it would always assemble the RAID
> improperly and force a three-day rebuild process, which is even less
> acceptable IMHO.
>
>
You have something really misconfigured somewhere.  Or the kernel or initrd
you have doesn't have all the raid toys compiled in it and it must wait to
get to the real / for access to the modules.
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James P. Kinney III
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