On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:41:07 -0700 Scott Long <scott_long@adaptec.com> wrote: > A problem that we've encountered, though, is the following sequence: > > 1) md is inialized during boot > 2) drives X Y and Z are probed during boot > 3) root fs exists on array [X Y Z], but md didn't see them show up, > so it didn't auto-configure the array > > I'm not sure how this can be addressed by a userland daemon. Remember > that we are focused on providing RAID during boot; configuring a > secondary array after boot is a much easier problem. Looking at this chicken-and-egg problem of booting from an array from administrator's point of view ... What do you guys think about Intel's EFI? I think it would be the most apropriate place to put a piece of code that would scan the disks, assemble any arrays and present them to the OS as bootable devices ... If we're going to get a common metadata layout, that would be even easier. Thoughts? -- Jure PeÄar - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
