On Mittwoch 17 Februar 2010, Nick Bowler wrote: > 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. well at the moment it takes less than two seconds until init takes over. Adding .5 seconds is a lot. And loading the initrd and changing root isn't free either, true? I remember well all the noise in the past about making linux booting faster. So why slow it down with an initrd - especially if you can do without? Glück Auf, Volker -- 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
