On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 12:49:13PM +0100, Luca Berra wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 02:30:45PM +0100, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: > >>>Good! I was working on a mandriva professional 2006 system 2.6.12 > >>2006.0 is EOL > > > >2006.0 professional is maintained to 2011 > > you mean cd4? I mean Corporate Server 4 - cs4. > >>>kernel, and I hacked the mkinitrd to have it generate mdadm.conf etc > >>>- it did not at all look at this. I can send you my patches, but they > >>> are in no way clean. > >>mkinitrd in 2006.0 did generate mdadm.conf and use it, so i don't know > >>what your patches were doing. > > > >the code to generate mdadm.conf was not activated. I made some patches > >to force raid code generation. > > really? > if this is the case you should have submitted a bug report. It is possible that I do. I would like to find out what to do first, however. > >>>There was no mention of raid10 in the code either. > >>yes support for raid10 was added after 2006.0 release > >> > >>>I thied to contact Erik Troan - the main author of mkinitrd (and lots of > >>>other stuff:-) - but got a bouncing message for his redhat address. > >>i think Erik does not maintain mkinitrd any more, it is quite an old > >>software. > > > >OK, who maintains it now, and is mkinitrd still a viable - perhaps the > >best - way to make initrd's? > mkinitrd is maintained by RedHat (http://www.redhat.com/) > afaik the person responsible for that package is Peter Jones. > Mandriva up to 2008.0 used a version derived from mkinitrd 4.2.17 codebase, > maintained by me. > the upcoming 2008.1 will use a version derived from mkinitrd 6 codebase, > maintained by Olivier Blin. > > >Where is the latest mkinitrd available from? > the redhat version is avaliable from any rawhide mirror > http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/development/ > The mandriva version from any cooker mirror > http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/CookerMirrors > > >Could I use the latest mkinitrd with my 2006.0 system? > i don't think so > > >>>And I was about to report this om qa.mandriva.com - but it seems that I > >>>already made contact! > >>if you want a bug fixed on mandriva please send a bug report on > >>qa.mandriva.com, same applies for redhat/fedora. > >>If you have questions to ask, feel free. > > > >Is raid10,f2 supported under the latest haddrake2? > > No. Thanks for your answers. I filed a feature request for cooker on harddrake2 and drakx. I think mkinitrd is actually used by the kernel, with a make install. Is that true? Then mkinitrd is a general script that is used on almost all linux systems. So I can assume that this is available when I write a howto. best regards keld -- 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
