Re: [IPCop-devel] Anyone having on install 'Unable to make root filesystem'

[Olaf W. <wei...@ip...>]

On 2010-09-07 11:58, David W Studeman wrote:

> Unfortunately to work it has to be included in the kernel itself along
> with the autotetect feature. Having the driver non modularized breaks a
> few things on System Information and System Status on non raid installs
> since in the case of a Raid capable Cobalt, /proc/mdstat will ALWAYS
> exist whether md0 and md1 exist or not. Perhaps have them check for
> /dev/md* first? Or even /sys/block/md*?

That test was more of a quick hack anyway.
Would probably be better to have something like /etc/RAID (similar to 
/etc/FLASH) to differentiate between non-raid and raid installations.


> Since You (Olaf) and I like flash installs for IPCop, there now exists
> flash ide adapters that not only have the same interface as a 3.5" IDE
> drive as far as the molex next to the 40 pin, but they are also hot
> swap. This would surely keep uptime in a flash drive failure running raid 1.

We'd just need to adopt some mechanism to exchange the linux kernel 
without a reboot and there's no limit to uptime ;-)


Olaf