On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 13 Feb 2010, Michael Evans wrote: >> I remember hearing that 1.x had /no/ plans for kernel level >> auto-detection ever. That can be accomplished in early-userspace >> leaving the code in the kernel much less complex, and therefore far >> more reliable. > > Yes, it is far more reliable kernel side, if only because it doesn't do > anything. > > But the userspace reliability is _not_ good. initrds are a source of > problems the moment things start to go wrong, and that's when they are not > the problem themselves. > > And the end result is a system that needs manual intervention to get its > root filesystem back. > > In my experience, every time we moved critical codepaths to userspace, we > ended up decreasing the *overall* system reliability. > > -- > "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring > them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond > where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot > Henrique Holschuh > Maybe you'd like a simple, easy to customize initramfs creator. That's exactly what I was aiming for when I made AEUIO https://sourceforge.net/projects/aeuio There are some things that could use improvement, but if your system can boot without loading modules it should be more than sufficient even across kernel versions. -- 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
