On 09:41 Wed 17 Feb , david@xxxxxxx wrote: > for a distro that is trying to make one kernel image run on every > possible type of hardware features like initramfs (and udev, modeules, > etc) are wonderful. > > however for people who run systems that are known ahead of time and > static (and who build their own kernels instead of just relying on the > distro default kernel), all of this is unnessesary complication, which > leaves more room for problems to creep in. Such people can easily construct an initramfs containing busybox and mdadm with a shell script hardcoded to mount their root fs and run switch_root. It's a ~10 minute jobbie that only needs to be done once. -- Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/) -- 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
