On Aug 1, 2006, Michael Tokarev <mjt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Alexandre Oliva wrote: > [] >> If mdadm can indeed scan all partitions to bring up all raid devices >> in them, like nash's raidautorun does, great. I'll give that a try, > Never, ever, try to do that (again). Mdadm (or vgscan, or whatever) > should NOT assemble ALL arrays found, but only those which it has > been told to assemble. This is it again: you bring another disk into > a system (disk which comes from another machine), and mdadm finds > FOREIGN arrays and brings them up as /dev/md0, where YOUR root > filesystem should be. That's what 'homehost' option is for, for > example. Exactly. So make it /all/all local/, if you must. It's the same as far as I'm concerned. > If initrd should be reconfigured after some changes (be it raid > arrays, LVM volumes, hostname, whatever), -- I for one am fine > with that. Feel free to be fine with it, as long as you also let me be free to not be fine with it and try to cut a better deal :-) -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Secretary for FSF Latin America http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
