On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 11:33:20PM +0100, Jure Pe??ar wrote: > 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? Why bother? We can have userland code running before any device drivers are initialized. And have access to * all normal system calls * normal writable filesystem already present (ramfs) * normal multitasking All of that - within the heavily tested codebase; regular kernel codepaths that are used all the time by everything. Oh, and it's portable. What's the benefit of doing that from EFI? Pure masochism? - 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
