On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Jeremy Katz<katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday, July 15 2009, Dan Williams said: >> mdadm-3.0 has facilities to prevent assembly of certain metadata types >> [1] or arrays with certain uuids [2]. I wonder if we also need a >> facility to prevent auto-assembly of arrays *not* listed in >> mdadm.conf? So the mdadm.conf file installed in the initramfs would >> only identify the root array and all other randomly identified md >> devices would be ignored (rather than assembled with a foreign name). >> >> Thoughts? > > There is no mdadm.conf in the initramfs -- in fact, the initramfs may > not even be generated on the system that you're booting and instead be > "generic" for the kernel in question Still, it sounds like a good feature to be added for a --hostonly initramfs. (especially on systems that are attaching to iscsi and/or fibre channel luns) > Jeremy > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
