On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 12:01:55PM +0000, Thomas Horsten wrote: > On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > The reason I insist on autodetection is that I think it's important that if > > > the BIOS will reckognise the drive without additional intervention, so will > > > Linux. This will make the entry route for newbies much simpler. > > > > do you call running devicemapper tools from the initrd autodetection ? > > Probably not. I am working with several ways of doing it, and that's why I > wanted to have a discussion about this. > > Ideally I'd want something like the MD autodetect code, so that the whole > thing can be set up by the kernel at boot-time if the necessary drivers > are compiled in (by reading the Medley superblock the same way it's done > for 0xfe partitions). I (and I suspect a lot of other folks) rather get rid of such autodetect and move it to userspace. Either via initrd or initramfs. > Having autodetection at kernel level would make it possible to boot from a > kernel on a floppy disk without initrd support, and in general make a > system easier to set up. initrd/initramfs is increasingly becoming mandatory sort of, and it's actually easy if not even default to set up. (Eg on Fedora / Red Hat even just typing make install will auto-create this for you) > But the reason I wanted this discussion is to figure out the best way to > go about it, and if there are some good arguments against autodetecting in > the kernel I'll listen to them. It doesn't really belong there.
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