Re: RFC - device names and mdadm with some reference to udev.

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On 11:13, Doug Ledford wrote:

> > I would really like to have a clear separation of competencies.
> > Ideally, mdadm never creates any devices but leaves it all to udev,
> > and all configuration about alternate names ("symlinks") is done in
> > the udev rules file.
> 
> This would then require that we have a working udev in our initrd
> images.  It would greatly increase the complexity of early booting as a
> result.

Given that the initramfs usually contains busybox, one can also using
mdev. It's much simpler than udev and it's good enough if the only
thing you want to do is mounting the root partition that resides on
a software raid array.

Andre
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