On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 07:55 +0100, Luca Berra wrote:
> Well it might be a matter of personal preference, but i would prefer
> an initrd doing just the minumum necessary to mount the root filesystem
> (and/or activating resume from a swap device), and leaving all the rest
> to initscripts, then an initrd that tries to do everything.
The initrd does exactly that. The rescan for superblocks does not
happen in initrd or mkinitrd, it must be done manually. The code in
mkinitrd uses the mdadm.conf file as it stands, but in the initrd image
it doesn't start all the arrays, just the needed arrays to get booted
into your / partition.
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