On 01/18/12 17:43, Jes Sorensen wrote: >> We should tell to mdadm for boot device assembly to be prepared for >> > fs pivot when reshape is in progress. We can do this by specifying 2 >> > options in command line, but in real world "someone will forget about >> > something", so I think '--iinitrd' can have '--freeze-reshape' >> > functionality also /without freeze-reshape option removal for >> > separate use when raid will not be a boot device/. As I wrote before >> > it needs to set one variable during command line parsing in mdadm.c >> > only. > If there is already a --freeze-reshape option, then I think it is better > to have the boot scripts set that explicitly. The initramfs stage isn't > really something we expect users or admins to mess with manually, so it > ought to work for that. However if there is no option for this, and I > just need to set the variable when detecting --initrd, then I can add > that to the patchset no problem. I guess I should add here, that I am not strongly opposed to setting freeze_reshape for initrd. I am just wary of setting multiple flags magically without it being obvious to the user/admin. Cheers, Jes -- 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
