On 19:27 Wed 17 Feb , Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Mittwoch 17 Februar 2010, Nick Bowler wrote: > > 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. > > and even better when you don't have to do that one time job at all. But people who are building their own kernels are already doing a (much harder, imo) one time job of configuring their kernels. > btw, what about additional delay? It takes about half a second for mdadm to assemble my root array, is that what you're referring to? I assume that kernel auto-assembly is no faster, although I've never used it. Regardless, half a second isn't very long to wait. -- 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
