Re: [OSR-devel] MD Software RAID

[Marc G. <gr...@at...>]

Hi Gordan,
On Thursday 05 February 2009 23:11:24 Gordan Bobic wrote:
> It would appear that OSR doesn't start up MD software RAID arrays.
yes.
>
> Well, now it does. Patches attached. :)
;-)
How and were are you using md?
>
> It fires up any MD arrays that can be assembled right after the DM
> arrays. I'm not sure if this should be made optional (only do it if
> mdadm is present, which will only be the case of the mdadm.list files
> are added to the initrd. Any thoughts on this?
Good question. I'm not sure. I would love to have it only if you want it. But 
how can an md-device be detected?
>
> On an unrelated note, mkinitrd seems to put all the .pyc and .pyo files
> into the initrd. I only found this out because I wiped them while
> troubleshooting the cdslDefaults_element issue, since it complains those
> files are not there. Are these really necessary? I would have thought
> those non-essential, and anything making the initrd smaller is probably
> a good thing... Speaking of which, did my mkinitrd -l parameter optional
> "diet" kernel module patch ever make it into the trunk?
No, not yet. I didn't forget it but had no time to reallly think about it. I'm 
still not sure how to use it best.

With the python packages. The .pyo/pyc is a point. I'll think about adding 
something like <package> *.py to the listfiles listing python rpms. That 
means only files with .py in the end will be included. And no I don't think 
it works negative. ;-)

Regards Marc.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Gordan



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