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On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 10:48:22PM -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > Hi, guys: > > This is an implementation of essentially the same mechanism which exists > in msdos.c and sun.c. It is needed when initrd tries to mount a root > on a RAID. One might ask, why the heck initrd cannot do it without a > kernel help. The answer is in the contrived API of the MD driver: there > is no way to ask "assemble md0"; applications must list components. > Anyway, if msdos.c does it, surely ibm.c ought to do it as well. We had this for a few partition types (and full block devices) already and it's been vetoed. Use mdadm from initrd/initramfs instead. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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