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

[Brian Pitts]

On 07/17/2010 03:23 AM, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 16:37 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> current fedora and redhat don't use /etc/mdadm.conf any more. All
>> partitions are marked autodetect (don't recal the label in fdisk) 
> 
> According to upstream documentation, using 0xfd ("Linux raid
> autodetect") is now deprecated; instead, software RAID should be on the
> device directly or contained in partitions of type 0xda ("Non-FS data")
> and explicitly configured.[0]  Using autodetect-style partitions was
> deprecated as of as far back as Linux kernel 2.6.8[1], which was
> released nearly six years ago.

In case you've had better luck poking around that wiki than I have, I'll ask

Explicitly configured how and where?

How is assembling the RAID array done during boot (or is that
distro-dependent) ?

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All the best,
Brian Pitts